Aristotle & Agostino Nifo (1470-1538)
Suessa[nus] super Postera Cum Tabula.
[Commentary on the Posterior Analytics.]
Venice: Octaviani Scoti; 1526.
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 vellum with printed paper boards;
some water staining and spotting to contents (lower margin), single wormhole to the upper right corner of the last few leaves
85 lvs. (170 pp.)
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.
Folio. Size 8.5 by 12.5 inches
Text in Latin



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