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Antonello Privitera (Bibliopathos) description: Folio, stiff vellum with handwritten title at spine, ff. [8], 262. Giunti woodcut device on title page and colophon. Text in Latin, on two columns. The most correct Renaissance edition of Aristotle's works, containing the "Historia Animalium," the founding work of zoology, the "De Partibus Animalium," the founding work of comparative anatomy between man and animals, the "De Animalium Incessu" and the "De Animalium Motu." This is volume VI, complete in itself, of the scarcest Giunta edition of the Complete Works of Aristotle, almost always sold as individual volumes because the entire set is “introuvable.” The Arabian commentary by Averroes (i.e. Ibn Rushd), lacking from the Aldine edition of the Works), is particularly valuable. Averroës (born 1126, Córdoba [Spain] — died 1198, Marrakech, Almohad empire [now in Morocco]), was influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought. At the request of the Almohad caliph Abu Yaʿqub Yusuf, he produced a series of summaries and commentaries on most of Aristotle’s works, a project on which he worked for twenty-six years (1169–1195). Averroes is one of the great commentators and interpreters of Aristotle, regarded by many as one of the key figures in the development of the European Enlightenment. He was a defender of the freedom of rational investigation, and a precursor of the modern scientific outlook, sought to reconcile philosophy and religion, and thus introduce philosophy into Muslim society. |
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