ROMAN LECTURES ON ARISTOTLE'S PHYSICS
[ARISTOTLE.]
‘Quaestiones philosophicae ad mentem Aristotelis R.P. Iulii Caes. Corradi C.R.S. excepit Abb. Fabritius de Comitibus Guidis a Balneo in Col. Clem. an. MDCLXXI.’
[Rome, 1670–1].
Manuscript on paper, in Latin, 4to (220 x 160 mm), ff. [1], 306 (ff. 87, 88 and 268 blank); with engraved frontispiece (Rome, Fran. Corbel, 1632) with blank central cartouche in which the title is written in manuscript, Guido di Bagno arms at foot; written in dark brown ink in a single cursive hand, 31 lines per page, small diagrams to ff. 225v, 226r, 255v, and 257r; frontispiece folded along edges so as not to project from text block, a little light foxing; very good in contemporary vellum, title in ink to spine, blue edges; a little wear to extremities, stain to lower cover.
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‘Quaestiones philosophicae ad mentem Aristotelis R.P. Iulii Caes. Corradi C.R.S. excepit Abb. Fabritius de Comitibus Guidis a Balneo in Col. Clem. an. MDCLXXI.’
A late seventeenth-century manuscript containing lectures on Aristotle’s Physics given at the prestigious Collegio Clementino in Rome by Giulio Cesare Corradi of Cremona, Somascan priest and lecturer in philosophy, as recorded by Fabrizio Guidi di Bagno.
The Collegio Clementino was founded in 1595 by Pope Clement VIII to host Slavonian refugees, but under Urban VIII it was turned into an elite school for wealthy young noblemen from Italy and abroad. Fabrizio Guidi di Bagno was from an old Mantuan noble family, and was likely related to the cardinals Giovanni Francesco (1578–1641) and Nicola (1583–1663). According to a note on f. 7r, Fabrizio began with the first book of Aristotle’s Physics on 15 April 1670. Corradi’s lectures cover matter, nature, causes, motion and rest, place, time, and quantity.
