Renaissance Aristotelianism in Southeast Europe

Pavel Gregoric is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. He is the co-editor of two critical editions of Nikola Vitov Gucetic’s commentaries on Aristotle (Brill 2023, Brepols 2024). From 2018 to 2023 he led the research project “Croatian Renaissance Aristotelianism”, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.Martino Rossi Monti is Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. He has published several essays on Renaissance philosophy and culture.

• Introduction, Pavel Gregoric and Martino Rossi Monti (Institute of Philosophy,Zagreb, Croatia)SCHOLARSHIP1. From Humanist to Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Antonio Zara’s ‘Anatomia ingeniorum et scientiarum’, Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland, USA / )2. Vera scientia prognosticandi: Federik Grisogono and Medical Astrology in Dalmatia, Ivana Skuhala Karasman (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)3. Philology, observation, and medicine in Daniel Furlanus’ commentary on Theophrastus’ ‘De ventis’, Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy)4. Too much to quote: the management of sources in Nikola Vitov Gucetic’s ‘Commentary on the first book of Aristotle’s Rhetoric’, Gorana Stepanic (University of Pula, Croatia)5. Matej Frkic and his Enemies, Eva del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania, USA)METAPHYSICS6. Vernacular Metaphysics in Renaissance Ragusa, Marco Sgarbi (University of Venice, Italy) 7. The Organistic Cosmological Theory of Antun Medo, Pavel Gregoric (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)8. Self-defence of Aristotelianism at the turn of the seventeenth century: Juraj Dubrovcanin and Matej Frkic, Mihaela Girardi Karšulin (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)INTERACTIONS WITH PLATONISM9. Aristotelianism and Platonism in Nikola Vitov Gucetic’s ‘Dialogo della bellezza’ and ‘Dialogo d’amore’, Maiko Favaro (University of Rome – Sapienza, Italy)10. Petric’s Nemesis: Aristotle or the Aristotelians?, Luka Boršic (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia) BibliographyIndex

Historians of Renaissance philosophy have recently shifted their attention from the intellectual activity of the ‘centers’ to that of the ‘peripheries’. This volume offers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the rich philosophical output in Southeast Europe.