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Please join us for a talk by Riccardo Saccenti, professor at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Italy), titled "From Ethics to Philology and Back: The Fortune of Taddeo Alderotti’s Liber ethicorum between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance".

´¡°ù¾±²õ³Ù´Ç³Ù±ô±ð’s Nicomachean Ethics plays a crucial role in the intellectual history of Latin Europe and its impact was not limited to the universities. Brunetto Latini used an abridgment of ´¡°ù¾±²õ³Ù´Ç³Ù±ô±ð’s Ethics, the so-called Summa Alexandrinorum or Liber ethicorum, in his Tresor and the same text was translated into Italian by Taddeo Alderotti, spreading the Aristotelian ethics among the urban culture in Italy. Making use of three manuscripts and a printed edition of this Liber Ethicorum preserved at ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ Libraries, it is possible to go through the diffusion of this text, evaluating its impact on the building of the moral behavior of the Italian and European elites between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries.

Riccardo Saccenti teaches the history of medieval philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo. His interests concern the relationship between medieval doctrines on the law of nature and the teaching of the church (7th-14th centuries). He has been a team member of the ERC ‘Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought’ project at King’s College London. He published a critical edition of John of La Rochelle’s Quaestiones disputatae de legibus and his monographs include studies on the moral doctrines between the 12th and 13th centuries. 

Presented in partnership with ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ Libraries