This article focuses on the Renaissance reception of Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias' «Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems», and namely on the Latin translations produced by Theodoros Gaza, Giorgio Valla, and Angelo Poliziano. It offers a first attempt of comparison of the three translations as well as a synoptic edition of a specimen concerning the preface to Book I.

(Pseudo-)Alexander of Aphrodisias between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Notes on the Fortuna of the Medical Puzzles and Physical Problems

Silvano, Luigi
2021-01-01

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This article focuses on the Renaissance reception of Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias' «Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems», and namely on the Latin translations produced by Theodoros Gaza, Giorgio Valla, and Angelo Poliziano. It offers a first attempt of comparison of the three translations as well as a synoptic edition of a specimen concerning the preface to Book I.
2021
Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Brepols
Studia Artistarum
45
117
144
9782503588278
Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata, Angelo Poliziano, Giorgio Valla, Theorore Gaza
Silvano, Luigi
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