...First (and only) edition of this rare commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo, correlated with Averroës’ text on the same subject. A native of Sessa Aurunca, near Naples, Nifo (1473–1545?) was one of the most important commentators on Aristotle...
...Two publications, issued by the same printers in consecutive years, bound together:
1. Agostino Nifo, De pulchro and De amore. The Italian philosopher's books on beauty and love.
2. Giovanni Braccesco, De alchemia dialogi duo. First edition...
...Very rare edition ( the first, virtually unobtainable, had appeared in Venice, 1497). The treatise is a commentary on the famed Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, in which Averroes (1126–1198) defends the use of Aristotelian philosophy within Islamic...
...First edition, very rare, of the Italian philosopher Agostino Nifo's commentary on the twelfth-century Andalusian philosopher Averroes' all-comprehensive celestial physics. Averroes wrote commentaries on Aristotle's Physica and De caelo...