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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not only did Monfasani succeed in producing a masterpiece that brings to accomplishment fifty years of research on George of Trebizond, but he also managed to provide younger generations of students of Renaissance philosophy with a lesson in methodology, namely that knowledge devoid of humbleness is useless." * The Vatican Library Review *
Table of ContentsPart I. Georgii Trapezuntii Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis et De Prestantia Aristotelis
Preface
Table of Plates
Introduction
1. Date
2. Background
3. Themes
4. Descriptions of Manuscripts and the Editio Unica
5. Fortuna
6. Principles of the Edition
7. Sigla for Manuscripts Cited in the Footnotes
8. Two Prefaces and an Oration to Mehmed II
The Text: Georgii Trapezuntii Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis et De Prestantia
Aristotelis
Part II. Georgii Trapezuntii in Perversionem Problematum Aristotelis a Quodam Theodoro Cage Editam et Problematice Aristotelis Philosophie Protectio
Table of Plates
Introduction
1. Background
2. Themes and Arguments
3. Ludwig Mohler’s Edition and the Manuscripts
4. Principles of the Edition
The Text: Georgii Trapezuntii in Perversionem Problematum Aristotelis Protectio
Appendix 1: Concordance between the Problems in George of Trebizond’s Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata and the Problems in Modern Editions of the Greek Text
Appendix 2: Problems Discussed by George of Trebizond in His Protectio Aristotelis Problematum
Appendix 3: George of Trebizond’s Two Tabulae Problematum in MS BAV, Urb. Lat. 1322
Appendix 4: An Edition of Books 1, 4, and 30 of the Aristotelian Problemata in George of Trebizond’s Latin Translation
Appendix 5: Theodore Gaza's Preface to Pope Nicholas V for His Translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata
Appendix 6: Preface of Nicolaus Gupalatinus to Pope Sixtus IV for Theodore Gaza’s Translation of pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata
Addenda-Corrigenda to George of Trebizond and Collectanea Trapezuntiana
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index Auctorum
