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George Gennadius II Scholarios and the West: Comments on Demetracopoulos, “George Scholarios’ Abridgment of the Parva naturalia”

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The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism

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The most striking aspect of Dr. Demetracopoulos’ contribution is the evidence for how unoriginal was Scholarios’ Aristotelian scholarship. The chief source of Scholarios’ commentary on the Parva naturalia was Theodore Metochites, whose ultimate source in turn was Michael of Ephesus. So once the Aldine Press had published the text of Michael of Ephesus’ commentary in 1527 and once Conrad Gesner’s Latin translation of Michael of Ephesus’s commentary was printed in 1541 and Gentian Hervet’s translation of Theodore Metochites’ commentary in 1559, the Renaissance had rendered Scholarios’ commentary otiose.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Monfasani (1976, 193).

  2. 2.

    This is the contention of chapter 21 of Book 2 of George’s Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis, which I am editing.

  3. 3.

    See Chroust (1945). On the medieval debate, see also Imbach (1994).

  4. 4.

    See Monfasani (2013, 360).

  5. 5.

    On Tomaeus, see de Bellis (1975, 1980); d’Ascia (1990); and Geanakoplos (1989, 114–29: “The career of the little-known Renaissance Greek scholar Nicolaus Leonicus Tomaeus and the ascendancy of Greco-Byzantine Aristotelianism at Padua University [1497]”).

  6. 6.

    See Monfasani (1999).

  7. 7.

    My impressions are drawn from editing George and from reading Leoniceno’s translation of St. Athanasius and Birago’s Strategicon adversus Turcos.

  8. 8.

    See Garin (1950), who knew no translation also of another Aristotelian work, the Meteorologia, but Mattia Palmieri produced one in the late 1460s; see Martin (2008, 156–57).

  9. 9.

    For editions see Cranz and Schmitt (1984). This work is my primary source for the bibliographical information that follows.

  10. 10.

    J.-F Maillard et al. (1999, 349–479). The first edition appeared in 1550; see ibid., 379.

  11. 11.

    On him see Rice (1972, 249–50) and ibid., 406–10 for the preface of the 1518 edition. See also Heller (1987, 379).

  12. 12.

    See Gouwens and Celenza (2006).

  13. 13.

    On Sepúlveda, in addition to Gouwens and Celenza, see Coroleu (1994, 1996a, b) and Pujalte (2000).

  14. 14.

    See p. 319 above.

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Monfasani, J. (2018). George Gennadius II Scholarios and the West: Comments on Demetracopoulos, “George Scholarios’ Abridgment of the Parva naturalia”. In: Bydén, B., Radovic, F. (eds) The Parva naturalia in Greek, Arabic and Latin Aristotelianism. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26904-7_13

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