Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701
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Sale 2701 - Lot 56

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Aristotle & Agostino Nifo (1470-1538)
Suessa[nus] super Postera Cum Tabula. [Commentary on the Posterior Analytics.]

Venice: Octaviani Scoti, 1526.

Folio, text in two columns, gothic letter throughout; occasional text diagrams; large woodcut printer's device below colophon on verso of last extant leaf; bound in modern half parchment with printed paper boards; some water staining and spotting to contents; lacking final leaf after the colophon (likely blank); 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

Agostino Nifo is referred to as "Suessani" by the publisher here, in the title and at each introductory and concluding paragraph in the work. This moniker is derived from Nifo's birthplace, Sessa Aurunca (Suessa Pometia), a city of ancient and continuous occupation on the west slope of the extinct volcano Roccamonfina in western Italy. Nifo pursued his studies in Padua, where he equipped himself for a career as a philosopher writing on rational existence as it relates to catholic doctrine. He saw each human soul as indestructible, even in death, at which point it merges into a vast and never-ending spiritual entity. As often as not, he wrote commentaries on Aristotle, required reading throughout the scholarly European world in the Renaissance and beyond.
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