Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini
Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of India by Alessandro Achillini

Secreta secretorum Aristotelis; Medical secrets plus a largely imaginary Medieval European view of I 1528

Alessandro Achillini

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  • Sur l'oeuvre d'art
    Secreta secretorum Aristotelis.
    Including:
    ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophi ... de signis aquarum: & tempestatum.
    ARISTOTLE [pseudo]. Maximi philosophurum ... de mineralibus.
    ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS. De intellectu.
    AVERROES. De beatitudine anime.
    ACHILLINI, Alexander. De universalibus.
    ALEXANDER THE GREAT [pseudo]. De mirabilibus Indie.
    (Colophon: Lyon, Antoine Blanchard, 23 March) 1528. Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With a title-page with a decorated woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on last page, 6 woodcut initials. Contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin(?) parchment over wooden boards, in a panel design, brass catch-plates and anchor-plates (straps and clasps lost).

    Collection of seven treatises on medicine and philosophy, edited by Alessandro Achillini (1463-1512). Four of these are pseudo-Aristotelian works that had been well known since the 13th century or earlier. The Secreta secretorum is here present in the translation of Philip of Tripoli; the De signis aquarum, ventorum et tempestatum on weather signs, was translated in the 13th century by Bartholomew of Messina; the third pseudo-Aristotle is De mineralibus on gems; the fourth, Alexandri Macedonis ad Aristotelem de mirabilibus Indie, is a fictitious letter by Alexander the Great to his teacher Aristotle, describing the wonders of India and the East. Three other similar "Indian tractates" are known, all of them connected with the romance of Alexander the Great at various points in history.
    The three remaining treatises in the present work consist of a work by Alexander of Aphrodisias on the intellect, another by Averroes on the beauty of the soul, and a work by Achillini himself on universals.

    Very good copy, with very slight browning and a few marginal spots, lacking the final blank. Binding lacking straps and clasps, and with the (restored?) spine damaged.

    Baudrier V, p. 104; Stillwell 578; USTC 155810 (8 copies); cf. Lach II, book 2, p. 94 ; Thorndike V, pp. 47-48.
  • Sur l'artiste
    Alessandro Achillini (1463 ou 1461, Bologne - 1512, Bologne) était un célèbre conférencier de médecine et de philosophie à Bologne et à Padoue. Il a vécu à Bologne la majeure partie de sa vie. Il était appelé «le deuxième Aristote». Il était de nature sincère et possédait un caractère dynamique. C'était un formidable débatteur. Ses œuvres philosophiques ont été publiées en un seul volume (folio), en 1508, à Venise, et réimprimées en 1545, 1551 et 1568 (éditions agrandies). En 1506, il dut quitter Bologne pour des raisons politiques, car il était partisan de la famille Bentivoglio. Il part pour Padoue, où il devient professeur de philosophie de 1506 à 1508). Achillini était également un anatomiste distingué, il a écrit entre autres De humani corporis anatomia (L'anatomie du corps humain), Venise, 1516-1524. Il fut enterré en 1512 à Bologne dans l’église Saint-Martin.