I TATTI STUDIES IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE HISTORY
Cover: Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance, from Harvard University PressCover: Success and Suppression in HARDCOVER

Success and Suppression

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$67.00 • £58.95 • €60.95

ISBN 9780674971585

Publication Date: 11/28/2016

Text

688 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 halftones

Villa I Tatti > I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

World

Add to Cart

Educators: Request an Exam Copy (Learn more)

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • List of Figures and Tables*
  • Preface
  • Note on Terminology, Orthography, and Transliteration
  • I. The Presence of Arabic Traditions
    • 1. Introduction: Editions and Curricula
    • 2. Bio-Bibliography: A Canon of Learned Men
    • 3. Philology: Translators’ Programs and Techniques
  • II. Greeks versus Arabs
    • 4. Materia medica: Humanists on Laxatives
    • 5. Philosophy: Averroes’s Partisans and Enemies
    • 6. Astrology: Ptolemy against the Arabs
    • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Availability of Arabic Authors in Latin Editions of the Renaissance
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index of Names
  • General Index
  • * Figures and Tables
    • Figures
      • Figure 1. Avicenna, Qānūn, with interlinear Latin translation by Girolamo Ramusio, f. 169v.
      • Figure 2. Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Basel, 1542, repr. Stanford, 1999), 446, 447
      • Figure 3. Joachim Camerarius (the Younger), De plantis epitome utilissima Petri Andreae Matthioli (Frankfurt am Main, 1586), 538, 539
      • Figure 4. Triumph of Thomas Aquinas: panel painting in the Dominican cloister San Marco, Florence (mid-fifteenth century)
      • Figure 5. Triumph of Thomas Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas, In decem libros Ethicorum Aristotelis profundissima commentaria (Venice, 1526 or 1531), f. 1r
      • Figure 6. Giambattista Riccioli, Almagestum novum astronomiam veterem novamque complectens (Bologna, 1651), 7.5, 672
    • Tables
      • Table 1. Printed Latin editions of Arabic authors before 1700
      • Table 2. Renaissance Latin translations of Arabic sciences and philosophy (1450–1700)
      • Table 3. The monograph on Senna in Pseudo-Mesue’s De simplicibus
      • Table 4. Astrological histories from Pierre d’Ailly to Giambattista Riccioli

Recent News

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Photograph of the book Fearless Women against red/white striped background

A Conversation with Elizabeth Cobbs about Fearless Women

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the work of Elizabeth Cobbs, whose new book Fearless Women shows how the movement for women’s rights has been deeply entwined with the history of the United States since its founding. Cobbs traces the lives of pathbreaking women who, inspired by American ideals, fought for the cause in their own ways