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18 Petrarch [1.24], 66, 78–9; Petrarch [1.26], 31 (I.25); Petrarch [1.28], 662–4;
Augustine, De civitate Dei VIII.9–10 and XXII.7, De vera religione III.3,
Confessions III.iv.7; see also Foster [1.34], 170; Gerosa [1.35], 246, 252–3.
19 On Bruni see Dizionario [1.4], vol. 14, 618–33; Bruni [1.56], 21–42. Aside from
Aristotle, Bruni translated works by Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Xenophon and
Plutarch.
20 Bertalot [1.57], vol. 2, 132–3; Bruni [1.46], vol. 1, 17 (I.8); see also Cammelli [1.
63], vol. 1; Schmitt and Skinner [1.17], 86–7; Schmitt [1.16], 68; Gerl [1.65], 125–
6.
21 Bruni [1.46], vol. 2, 88, 216 (VII.4; X.24); Bruni [1.56], 208, 210, 213; Bruni [1.47],
77, 84–6.
22 Bruni [1.56], 68–9 (Dialogi); see also Gilbert [1.36], 209; Vasoli [1.19], 26.
23 Garin [1.64], 62–8.
24 Petrarch [1.24], 67; Bruni [1.56], 82, 91, 226, 229; Bruni [1.47], 48, 77; see also
Seigel [1.18], ch. 4. Cicero’s praise (Academica II.xxxviii.119, De finibus I.v.14;
Topica I.3) was based on Aristotle’s lost exoteric works, not on the so-called
school treatises we now have.
25 See Alonso de Cartagena’s Liber in Birkenmajer [1.59], 168, 173, 175; Bruni [1.
56], 201–6; see also Garin [1.64], 63–4; Schmitt and Skinner [1.17], 79, 90.
26 Bruni [1.56], 45. For the prefaces to his Aristotle translations, see Bruni [1.47], 70–
81, 120–1.
27 Bruni [1.56], 59–60, 268; see also Garin [1.6], 151–2; Vasoli [1.19], 23–7; Gilbert
[1.36], 205–13.
28 Cammelli [1.63], vol. II; Dizionario [1.4], vol. 4, 129–31; Field [1.92], ch. 5; for
his inaugural lectures, see Müllner [1.51], 3–56.
29 Argyropulos [1.42]. He translated Aristotle’s Categories, De interpretation, Prior
and Posterior Analytics, as well as Porphyry’s Isagoge: see Cammelli [1.63], vol. 2,
183–4; Garin [1.64], 83–5.
30 Müllner [1.51], 43. He translated the Physics, De caelo and De anima: Cammelli
[1.63], vol. 2, 183; Garin [1.64], 84–5.
31 Müllner [1.51], 51–2: he describes Alexander’s opinion as ‘quite false and totally
abhorrent’, and Averroes’s as ‘extremely dangerous’; in support of the Christian
position, he produced ‘some rational arguments based on natural philosophy’, as
well as those based on ‘faith’; see also Garin [1.5], 102–5.
32 Argyropulos [1.43].
33 Acciaiuoli [1.41]; see also Bianchi [1.58]; Field [1.92], ch. 8. He wrote a similar
commentary on the Politics.
34 George translated the Physics, De anima, De generatione et corruptione, De caelo,
the zoological works and the Rhetoric, as well as the Pseudo-Aristotelian
Problems: Garin [1.64], 75–81; see also Monfasani [1.103].
35 George of Trebizond [1.49], 142–3, 191, 268; see also Monfasani [1.103], 26, 42,
76–7; Minio-Paluello [1.67], 264–5; Schmitt and Skinner [1.17], 77, 88.
36 George of Trebizond [1.49], 106–7. Gaza retranslated the zoological works and the
Problems, as well as translating Latin works, such as Cicero’s De senectute, into
Greek; on Gaza see Monfasani in Hankins et al. [1.8], 189–219, esp. 207–19; on
Bessarion see Mohler [1.102], vol. 1; Garin [1.64], 74–5.
37 In 1452 he was imprisoned for brawling with another humanist in the chancery of
the papal Curia: Monfasani [1.103], 109–11.