Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Translators
- Preface
- PART I CONCEPTS OF MAN
- PART II ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND THE SUPREME GOOD
- PART III ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND CHRISTIANITY
- PART IV PLATONIC ETHICS
- 12 Cardinal Bessarion
- 13 Marsilio Ficino
- 14 Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
- 15 Francesco de' Vieri
- PART V STOIC ETHICS
- PART VI EPICUREAN ETHICS
- Bibliography of Renaissance Moral Philosophy Texts Available in English
- Index Nominum
- Index Rerum
15 - Francesco de' Vieri
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Translators
- Preface
- PART I CONCEPTS OF MAN
- PART II ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND THE SUPREME GOOD
- PART III ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND CHRISTIANITY
- PART IV PLATONIC ETHICS
- 12 Cardinal Bessarion
- 13 Marsilio Ficino
- 14 Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
- 15 Francesco de' Vieri
- PART V STOIC ETHICS
- PART VI EPICUREAN ETHICS
- Bibliography of Renaissance Moral Philosophy Texts Available in English
- Index Nominum
- Index Rerum
Summary
Introduction
The Italian philosopher Francesco de' Vieri (1524–91) was born in Florence, the scion of a noble family which had produced a long line of humanists, poets, lawyers and doctors. He was called ‘il Verino secondo’ to distinguish him from his relative, also named Francesco de' Vieri and known as ‘il Verino’. Following in the footsteps of his namesake, a distinguished professor of Aristotelian philosophy in the first half of the sixteenth century, de' Vieri taught logic and natural philosophy at the University of Pisa from 1553. And like his forebear, he was actively involved in the Florentine Academy, a Tuscan cultural institute sponsored by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici. The programme of the Florentine Academy centred on the study of Italian literature, but it also promoted the use of vernacular in philosophy and other scholarly disciplines in order to make them more accessible to a wide audience. A number of de' Vieri's extant works, many of which remain in manuscript, consist of lectures written in Italian and delivered to the Florentine Academy. The subjects range from explications of the poetry of Dante and Petrarch to more philosophical topics presented in a simplified manner for popular consumption.
De' Vieri's most important achievement as a university philosopher was to give a course of lectures on Plato – a rare venture in sixteenth-century Italy, where Aristotle continued to monopolize the curriculum.
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- Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical TextsMoral and Political Philosophy, pp. 166 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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