List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle
Encyclopedia
This is a list of Renaissance
commentators on the works of Aristotle
, particularly those on natural philosophy
and ethics
.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
commentators on the works of Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
, particularly those on natural philosophy
Natural philosophy
Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature , is a term applied to the study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science...
and ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
.
- Source: Names taken from The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
- Donato AcciaiuoliDonato AcciaiuoliDonato Acciaioli was an Italian scholar.He was born in Florence, Italy. He was famous for his learning, especially in Greek and mathematics, and for his services to his native state....
- Alessandro AchilliniAlessandro AchilliniAlessandro Achillini was an Italian philosopher and physician.-Biography:He was born and died in Bologna, and is buried in the Church of Saint Martin there...
- Blasius of Parma
- Lodovico Boccadifero
- Simon Brossier
- Antonio BrucioliAntonio BrucioliAntonio Brucioli was an Italian humanist, religious thinker, publisher, and writer best known for his translation of the bible into Italian.-Life:...
- António de GouveiaAntónio de GouveiaAntónio de Gouveia was a Portuguese humanist and educator during the Renaissance. After graduating in Paris he taught at the Collège de Guyenne in Bordeaux, and then at Toulouse, Avignon, Lyon, Cahors, Valence, Grenoble, Turin and Mondovi. His controversy with Pierre de la Ramée about Aristotle...
- Joachim CamerariusJoachim CamerariusJoachim Camerarius , the Elder was a German classical scholar.-Life:He was born at Bamberg, Bavaria...
- John Case
- Giulio Castellani
- Josse Clichtove
- Gasparo ContariniGasparo Contarinithumb|240px|Gasparo Contarini.Gasparo Contarini was an Italian diplomat and cardinal. He was one of the first proponents of the dialogue with Protestants, after the Reformation.-Biography:...
- Luis Coronel
- Sebastian Couto
- Gilbert Crab
- Cesare CremoniniCesare Cremonini (philosopher)Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino , was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism and Aristotelian materialism inside scholasticism...
- Petrus Crockaert
- Petrus RamusPetrus RamusPetrus Ramus was an influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.-Early life:...
- Johannes Dullaert
- Nicolas Dupuy
- Johannes Eck
- Felice FigliucciFelice FigliucciFelice Figliucci was an Italian humanist, philosopher, and theologian.,-Life:He was born at Siena about the year 1525. He completed his studies in philosophy at Padua and was for a time in the service of Cardinal Del Monte, afterwards Pope Julius III...
- Pedro da FonsecaPedro da Fonseca (philosopher)Pedro da Fonseca was a Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle.-Works:* Institutionum Dialecticarum. Lisbon: 1564....
- George of Brussels
- Hubert van Giffen
- Emmanuel de Goes
- Johannes Herbetius
- Crisostomo Javelli
- Denys Lambin
- Giulio Landi
- Jacques Lefèvre d'ÉtaplesJacques Lefèvre d'ÉtaplesJacques Lefèvre d’Étaples or Jacob Faber Stapulensis was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d’Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a...
- John MairJohn MairJohn Mair was a Scottish philosopher, much admired in his day and an acknowledged influence on all the great thinkers of the time. He was a very renowned teacher and his works much collected and frequently republished across Europe...
- John of St Thomas
- Antonius a Matre Dei
- Marc-Antoine Muret
- Giulio PaceGiulio PaceGiulio Pace of Beriga was a well-known Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist.-Life:He was born in Vicenza, Italy, and studied law and philosophy in Padua....
- Paul of VenicePaul of VenicePaul of Venice was a Roman Catholic Scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician of the Hermits of the Order of Saint Augustine.-Life:...
- Philipp MelanchthonPhilipp MelanchthonPhilipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
- Antonio Montecatini
- Agostino Nifo Agostino NifoAgostino Nifo or Augustini Niphi or Niphas, Latinized as Agustinus Niphus or Augustinus Niphus, was an Italian philosopher and commentator.-Life:...
- Benito Pereira
- Giovanni Pico
- Francesco Piccolomini
- Pietro PomponazziPietro PomponazziPietro Pomponazzi was an Italian philosopher. He is sometimes known by his Latin name, Petrus Pomponatius.-Biography:...
- Giovanni Pontano
- Francis RobortelloFrancis RobortelloFrancesco Robortello was a Renaissance humanist, nicknamed Canis grammaticus for his confrontational and demanding manner.-As scholar:...
- Antonio Rubio de Rueda
- Jakob SchegkJakob SchegkJakob Schegk was a polymath German Aristotelian philosopher and academic physician.-Origins and education:...
- Domingo de SotoDomingo de SotoDomingo de Soto was a Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian born in Segovia, Spain, and died in Salamanca at the age of 66...
- Ciriaco Strozzi
- Francisco SuarezFrancisco SuárezFrancisco Suárez was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement, and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas....
- Antonius Sylvester
- Audomarus Talaeus (Omer TalonOmer TalonOmer Talon was a French humanist, a close ally of Petrus Ramus. Biographical details are few; and there are some quite serious bibliographical difficulties in distinguishing Talon and Ramus as authors .-Life:He was from Vermandois, the same region as Ramus...
) - Petrus Tartaretus
- Nicolaus TaurellusNicolaus TaurellusNicolaus Taurellus was a German philosopher and theologian.He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg. With support from Duke Georg I. of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, he read theology at University of Tübingen and medicine at the University of Basel, where he...
- Gaetano da Thiene
- Franciscus Toletus Franciscus ToletusFrancisco de Toledo, born the 4 October 1532 at Cordoba and died the 14 September 1596 in Rome, was a Spanish Jesuit theologian, Biblical exegete and professor at the Roman College...
- Paulus ValliusPaulus ValliusPaulus Vallius was an Italian Jesuit logician.-Life:He was born in Rome....
(Paolo Valla) - Pietro Martire VermigliPietro Martire VermigliPeter Martyr Vermigli , sometimes simply Peter Martyr, was an Italian theologian of the Reformation period.-Life:...
- Nicoletto VerniaNicoletto VerniaNicoletto Vernia was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua.-Life:He studied at Pavia, under Paolo da Pergola in Venice, and with Gaetano da Thiene in Padua, graduating with a doctorate in 1458...
- Jacopo ZabarellaJacopo ZabarellaGiacomo Zabarella was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician. He was accused of atheism for the notable chapter "De inventione æterni motoris" in his De rebus naturalibus libri XXX....
- Diego de ZúñigaDiego de ZúñigaDiego de Zúñiga of Salamanca was an Augustinian Hermit and academic. He is known for publishing an early acceptance of the Copernican theory.-Life:...
- Theodor ZwingerTheodor ZwingerTheodor Zwinger the Elder was a Swiss physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature...
See also
- Scholastic philosophy
- List of Renaissance humanists
- List of writers influenced by Aristotle