Vindicatio Aristotelis – Two Works of George of Trebizond in the Plato–Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century

John Monfasani is distinguished research professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. From 1995 to 2010 he also served as the executive director of the Renaissance Society of America.

• Part I. Georgii Trapezuntii Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis et De Prestantia AristotelisPrefaceTable of PlatesIntroduction1. Date2. Background3. Themes4. Descriptions of Manuscripts and the Editio Unica5. Fortuna6. Principles of the Edition7. Sigla for Manuscripts Cited in the Footnotes8. Two Prefaces and an Oration to Mehmed IIThe Text: Georgii Trapezuntii Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis et De PrestantiaAristotelisPart II. Georgii Trapezuntii in Perversionem Problematum Aristotelis a Quodam Theodoro Cage Editam et Problematice Aristotelis Philosophie ProtectioTable of PlatesIntroduction1. Background2. Themes and Arguments3. Ludwig Mohler’s Edition and the Manuscripts4. Principles of the EditionThe Text: Georgii Trapezuntii in Perversionem Problematum Aristotelis ProtectioAppendix 1: Concordance between the Problems in George of Trebizond’s Translation of the Aristotelian Problemata and the Problems in Modern Editions of the Greek TextAppendix 2: Problems Discussed by George of Trebizond in His Protectio Aristotelis ProblematumAppendix 3: George of Trebizond’s Two Tabulae Problematum in MS BAV, Urb. Lat. 1322Appendix 4: An Edition of Books 1, 4, and 30 of the Aristotelian Problemata in George of Trebizond’s Latin TranslationAppendix 5: Theodore Gaza's Preface to Pope Nicholas V for His Translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's ProblemataAppendix 6: Preface of Nicolaus Gupalatinus to Pope Sixtus IV for Theodore Gaza’s Translation of pseudo-Aristotle’s ProblemataAddenda-Corrigenda to George of Trebizond and Collectanea TrapezuntianaAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex Auctorum

"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."