The world’s first Latin translation of the essay by Pseudo-Aristoteles Peri\ tw=n a)retw=n kai\ kakiw=n by Szymon Grynaeus, a professor at the University of Basel, from the collection of the Copernicus Library in Toruń

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https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2021.009

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classical philology, neo-Latinism, history of science, ancient philosophy, Simon Grynaeus, Pseudo-Aristotle, Nicolaus Copernicus Public Provincial Library in Toruń

Abstract

The study concerns the world's first Latin translation of the essay On Virtues and Vices, preserved under the name of Aristotle, which was made in 1539 by Simon Grynaeus, then a professor at the University of Basel. In addition to the information about the author of the translation and linguistic comments, the study mentioned above also includes a spelling, punctuation, and editorial revision of Grynaeus's translation prepared based on the edition that appeared in print in 1593 in Frankfurt and is in the collections of the Nicolaus Copernicus Public Provincial Library in Toruń.

Author Biography

Tomasz Dreikopel, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Institute of Philosophy

Tomasz Dreikopel, PhD, is employed as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In 1999 he obtained a Master's degree at the Faculty of Humanities of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (hereinafter: NCU), and in 2008 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Languages at NCU His research interests relate to ancient philosophy and its broadly understood reception, especially in the academic gymnasium schools of Gdańsk and Toruń at the turn of the 16th  and 17th  centuries. He is the author of several dozen scientific publications, including the works printed in “Nowy Filomata”, “Rocznik Toruński”, “Szkice Humanistyczne”, “Folia Toruniensia”, “Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo” and in several collective monographs. The most important publications of this author include: Reception of Aristotle's ethical views in Isagoge ethica and Aristotelis de virtutibus libellus by Francis Tidicaeus, Olsztyn 2010; Old age in Ovid - an attempt to interpret the terms senectus, senex, senior, Szkice Humanistyczne, vol. 13, no. 2-3 (vol. 32): 2013, pp. 99-105; Francis Tidicaeus Quaestio ethica et politica, utrum honestum natura constet, an vero tantum opinione. Introduction, translation from Latin and commentary, Folia Toruniensia, vol. 17: 2017, pp. 231-242.

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Dreikopel, T. (2021). The world’s first Latin translation of the essay by Pseudo-Aristoteles Peri\ tw=n a)retw=n kai\ kakiw=n by Szymon Grynaeus, a professor at the University of Basel, from the collection of the Copernicus Library in Toruń. Folia Toruniensia, 21, 185–201. https://doi.org/10.12775/FT.2021.009

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