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IL CANONE DI POLICLETO
Full text linkPolykleitos, sculptor sophos, after the archaic volumina drawn up by the architects on individual buildings, is the first author who engaged in a theoretical activity, by writing a work entitled Canon, in all likelihood in the mid-5th c. BC. Throughout the centuries, this work circulated widely among erudites across different fields: one can find a few ‘quotations’ and paraphrases of it in authors of the early Hellenistic age. According to Chrysippus’ testimony, transmitted by Galen, Polykleitos first wrote this work and then tested his theories by crafting a statue, to which he gave the same title as his treatise, Canon. The paper focuses on a critical analysis of all this evidence in order to address several controversial points concerning Polykleitos’ oeuvre, including the identification of the statue entitled Canon with a lost bronze archetype transmitted by many marble replicas, and which has traditionally been seen to coincide with the well-known Doryphoros. The last part of the article is devoted to a comparison between Polykleitos and Lysippos based on the ancient sources. The two great sculptors are more or less explicitly mentioned in some epigrams in the section about the andriantopoiika by the Hellenistic poet Posiddipus of Pella (as revealed especially by the new anthology discovered in a Milanese papyrus), who set them in contrast to one another. In the Hellenistic period a new canon was introduced: the canon of truth
L’EPISTEMOLOGIE STOÏCIENNE
Full text linkStoic epistemology is usually assimilated to the Stoic theory of the criterion, namely ‘cognition’ (κατάληψις) and preconception (πρόληψις). Such assimilation is legitimate but needs to be further qualified. The Stoics considered science (ἐπιστήμη) to be accessible only to the Wise, defined virtue as a form of science and distinguished science from art (τέχνη), which has an identical structure: it consists in a coordinated system of ‘cognitions’ whose coherence and certainty is inferior to science, but accessible to non-wise persons. ‘Cognitive impression’ is the criterion coined by Zeno and it provoked polemics with the Academy: it is an impression in conformity with its object, whose existence was denied by the Academics. ‘Preconception’ was introduced by Chrysippus, who adapted Epicurean preconception, to which he gave a status beyond mere experience, though he denied ‘prenatal’ innatism
IL PROBLEMA DELLA CONOSCENZA IN PIRRONE ED ENESIDEMO
Full text linkIn this paper, I shall attempt a brief reconstruction of the epistemological views of Pyrrho and Aenesidemus. For Pyrrho, I shall rely mainly on Aristocles’ testimony (Aristocl. ap. Eus., PE XIV 18, 1-5), whereas for Aenesidemus, I shall take into account the Sextan version of the ten and eight modes of suspension of judgment (PH, I, 35-163; 180-186). In this way, I intend to highlight some of the distinctive features of Pyrrhonian scepticism
AGOSTINO IN CUSANO: OCCORRENZE, CONTESTI, RIFERIMENTI
Full text linkThe relationship between Cusanus and Augustine hasn’t been yet thoroughlyinvestigated. The critics has either focused on some historic, specific aspects or isolatedsome theoretic issues and motifs. A study which is both philological and philosophical isstill missing. This paper provides a table showing a. The presence of the name ‘Augustine’in the works of Cusanus, b. the related context, c. the works of Augustine detected asdirect sources
LUCRETIUS AND HIS DE RERUM NATURA SIX CENTURIES AFTER A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID SEDLEY
Full text linkIn this interview David Sedley reflects on some important points of hisseminal interpretation of Lucretius’ De rerum natura six centuries after its discovery in1417 by Poggio Bracciolini (Terranuova, now Terranuova Bracciolini, 1380 – Florence,1459)
EDIZIONI DIGITALI: RAPPRESENTAZIONE, INTEROPERABILITÀ, ANALISI DEL TESTO E INFRASTRUTTURE
Full text linkThe report of the fifth AIUCD Annual Conference presents a summary ofthe papers held in Venice on September 2016. The conference was devoted to therepresentation and study of the text under different points of view (resources, analysis, andinfrastructures). Philologists, historians, digital humanists, computational linguists,logicians, computer scientists and software engineers discuss together tools and methodsrelated to the digital edition of textes
“NEVE LUCRETIUS A ME INDEFENSUS MANEAT”: GIROLAMO MERCURIALE, IL DE RERUM NATURA E LA MEDICINA NEL RINASCIMENTO
Full text linkThe return of Lucretius’ De rerum natura in 1417 promoted an increasing recovery of ancient medical theories related to the atomistic philosophy in Renaissance Italy. Since Girolamo Fracastoro used Lucretian concept of semina rerum to explain the spread of the ‘French pox’ (1530), philosophers, physicians and humanists returned to look at Lucretius’ poem on nature as a main source of medical knowledge. This is the case of Girolamo Mercuriale, who defended Lucretius’ scientific authority first in a bitter epistolary quarrel with Piero Vettori, then in his Variarum lectionum libri (1570), where Lucretius is placed into the same atomistic tradition with Hippocrates and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the founder of the Methodic school of medicine, and finally in his treatise De pestilentia (1577), where Mercuriale exposed his theory about the contagion referring to the concepts of both Lucretius and Fracastoro
REPORT ABOUT THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PAPYROLOGY (BARCELONA, 2016)
Full text linkThe article provides a report on the 28th International Congress of Papyrologywhich has been hold in Barcelona in 2016. The focus lies on the contributions aboutHerculanean papyri. Particularly intriguing were two papers about recent developments invirtually unrolling of unopened papyrus rolls, a technique which, if fully developed, wouldmark a revolution in the field of Herculanean papyrolog