Coimbra Aristotelian Jesuit Course: Tomus I: Commentaries on the Books Named ‘Parva Naturalia’

Authors

Bernardino Fernando da Costa Marques
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-4974
Mário Santiago de Carvalho
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8257-9962
Sebastião Tavares de Pinho
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-7257
Marina Fernandes
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2051-6798
Keywords: Aristotelianism, Coimbra Jesuit Course, Natural History

Synopsis

Under the title ‘Parva Naturalia’ this Aristotelian text knew an unusual international diffusion; among all the Commentaries on the ‘Parva Naturalia’ stands the Coimbra Commentary (16th Century), written by Manuel de Góis, as a part of the widely known Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries. Indeed, they soon spread throughout European Universities and Colleges and even arrived to South American territories, as well as China, thanks to its several Chinese translations or adaptations published as soon as the 17th Century

Author Biographies

Bernardino Fernando da Costa Marques, University of Coimbra

PhD in Philosophy - University of Coimbra - 2011; researcher in the field of Medieval Philosophy, with several studies published especially on Frei Paio de Coimbra.

Mário Santiago de Carvalho, University of Coimbra

Mário Santiago de Carvalho is a full professor of philosophy (Department of Philosophy, Communications, and Information of the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra) and author of more than one hundred books and articles published in Portugal and abroad, mainly in the fields of medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and the so-called Conimbricenses, which is the subject of the present monograph. He is also a translator and part of several national and international academic committees for research, publication, and evaluation in philosophy.

Sebastião Tavares de Pinho, University of Coimbra

Sebastião Tavares de Pinho has pursued his entire academic career at the University of Coimbra, having completed a higher national diploma in classical studies (1971), a bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and classical languages and literatures (1972), and a doctorate in Renaissance Latin literature (1983) before becoming a full professor in 1992. He has lectured on Greek civilization, classical Latin language and literature, and Latin and Renaissance Latin literature. At the same time, he was also a guest lecturer of the same subjects at the University of Madeira and the Portuguese Catholic University (in Viseu). Among his many roles at the University of Coimbra he can count those of vice-chancellor, president of the Faculty of Letters Classical Studies Group Academic Commission, academic coordinator of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies, and director of one of the centre’s lines of research. He is a member of many national and international associations and academies, a founding partner of the Associação Internacional Anchietana [International Anchietana Association] (AIA) in São Paulo, secretary general and treasurer of the International Lusitanistas Association (AIL), and co-founder and director of its journal, Veredas, as well as of the journal Máthesis, published by the Faculty of Letters of the Portuguese Catholic University (in Viseu). A founding partner of the Portuguese Association of Neo-Latin Studies (APENEL) and chairman of its board, Sebastião Tavares de Pinho has given talks at more than a hundred national and international conferences, gatherings, and academic symposiums, presiding over or taking active part in the organization of more than 20 of such meetings in Portugal and abroad. His academic work centres on classical Greek and Latin studies, the legacy of the classics in literature written in Portuguese, and Camões studies, particularly on humanism and neo-Latin literature and the Renaissance in Portugal. Some of his publications are: D. Jerónimo Osório, Carta à Rainha da Inglaterra, Crítica e modernização do texto latino, tradução e notas [“D. Jerónimo Osório, a letter to the Queen of England, Criticism and modernization of the Latin text, with translation and notes”], Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional (1981) 254 pgs.; Lopo Serrão e o Seu Poema “Da Velhice”, Estudo introdutório, texto latino e aparato crítico, tradução e notas [“Lopo Serrão and his poem Da Velhice, introductory study, Latin text, critique, translation, and notes”], (doctoral dissertation) Coimbra: IECH (1987) 954 pgs.; Cícero, As Catilinárias, Introdução, tradução do latim e notas [“Cicero, the Catilinarians, introduction, translation from Latin, and notes”], Lisboa: Edições 70. 11990, 22006, 100 pgs.; Cícero, A Amizade, Introdução, tradução do latim e notas [“Cicero, On friendship, introduction, translation from Latin, and notes”] Coimbra: IECH (1993) 88 pgs.; O Humanismo em Portugal. Estudos I [“Humanism in Portugal: Studies I”], Lisbon: INCM (2006) 352 pgs.; O Humanismo em Portugal. Estudos II [“Humanism in Portugal: Studies II”], Lisbon: INCM (2006) 402 pgs.; Decalogia Camoniana [“Decalogia Camoniana”], Coimbra: Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos (2007) 208 pgs.

Marina Fernandes, University of Coimbra

Graduated in Classical Studies by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. This year the Masters degree in the same area ends, with a research work oriented to the promotion of the dissemination of classical culture and languages among the youngest, through teaching materials for the discipline of Introduction to Classic Culture and Languages, clubs and other subordinate initiatives the same theme.

Comentários aos Livros Denominados Parva Natvralia
Published
March 19, 2020

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