Naslov
Too Much to Quote: Source Hunting in Nicolò Vito di Gozze’s Renaissance Aristotle Commentaries

Autori
Stepanić, Gorana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Half a Century of Neo-Latin Studies Leuven, 31 July – 5 August 2022 Abstracts / - , 2022, 83-84

Skup
18th international congress of the International association for Neo-Latin studies (IANLS 2022)

Mjesto i datum
Leuven, Belgija, 31.07.2022. - 05.08.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
Aristotle's Commentators, Renaissance Aristotelianism, Nicolò Vito di Gozze, Nikola Vitov Gučetić, Quellenforschung, Literary sources, Quoting authorities, Aristotle, Renaissance Reference Literature, Bernardi, Nanni Mirabelli

Sažetak
In this paper I am going to present my research and discoveries on how the Ragusan Aristotelian philosopher and commentator Nikola Vitov Gučetić (Gozzius/Gozze/Gozzi ; 1549 –1610) was able to extensively quote at least 165 authorities in his commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric, written ca. 1607 in his native Dubrovnik. In primum librum “Artis rhetoricorum” Aristotelis commentaria comprise 272 folios and over 120.000 words. Gučetić quotes or paraphrases classical authors, their ancient followers and commentators, medieval authorities on Aristotle (Averroes, Aquinas), Early Modern philosophers, rhetoricians and commentators (Ficino, Barbaro, Manuzio) and 66 jurists. Around 15-20% of the text is quoted. There are at least 1500 direct quotations of ancient sources and estimated 300 from medieval and Early Modern authors. This paper gives report on my own experience of trials and errors in the search of Gozze’s sources for the apparatus fontium in the new critical edition of Gozze’s commentaries. The task raises difficult questions. Which texts did the commentator quote from? To what extent and grade of fidelity? From which editions? The availability of huge amounts of digitized potential sources enables the philologist to trace the author’s readings, but often leads to erroneous conclusions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Filologija

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