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1551 First Edtn AN HOMO BONUS VEL MALUS VOLENS FIAT By Simone Porzio

1551réf. BTETM0002693Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino 1551. 1st Edition. Vellum. Very Good. quarto 4to 9 12 × 12 in 241 נ305 mm . Please email for Photographs or further information.1551 First EditionAN HOMO BONUS VEL MALUS VOLENS FIATBy Simone PorzioKEY DETAILSCondition: Very GoodFormat: Vellum Quarto 4to; Later full vellum over boardsPublished By: Lorenzo Torrentino Florence 1551Language: LatinCollation: Pagination: 67 1 pp.; Signatures: ag h.; Complete.; The additional blank leaves at the beginning and end belong to the later binding and are therefore not included within the bibliographical collation.SKU: BTETM0002693Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2KgTracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer RequestDESCRIPTIONAN HOMO BONUS VEL MALUS VOLENS FIATSimonis Portii disputatio ad Laelium Taurellum iurisconsultiss. Duci Florentinorum à Secretis.First edition of Simone Porzio's important Renaissance philosophical disputation on free will moral responsibility and the formation of human character published at Florence in 1551.The title An homo bonus vel malus volens fiat approximately Whether a Man Becomes Good or Bad Willingly poses one of the central ethical questions of Renaissance philosophy: to what extent does an individual freely choose to become virtuous or viciousPorzio approaches the question through the Aristotelian tradition examining the relationship between reason appetite deliberation habit voluntary action and necessity. Stoic and Platonic positions are considered alongside the Peripatetic tradition as he explores whether moral character truly lies within human control.Although ostensibly defending human freedom Porzio arrives at a substantially qualified conception of free will. The resulting argument therefore occupies a particularly interesting position between Renaissance Aristotelian ethics moral psychology and contemporary theological debates concerning freedom grace and necessity.The work was sufficiently significant to receive an Italian translation by the Florentine humanist Giambattista Gelli in the same year extending Porzio's argument beyond the normal Latin scholarly readership.Dedicated to Lelio Torelli 14891576 jurist and senior administrator in the service of Cosimo I de' Medici the work belongs firmly to the intellectual culture of mid-sixteenth-century Florence.A scarce and intellectually substantial first edition dealing with questions of human freedom and responsibility that remain immediately recognisable nearly five centuries after its publication.CONDITION COLLATION & COPY NOTESCOLLATIONPagination: 67 1 pp.Signatures: ag h.Complete.The additional blank leaves at the beginning and end belong to the later binding and are therefore not included within the bibliographical collation.Two large woodcut initials including a striking figurative initial opening the first chapter.Later plain full vellum over boards the vellum naturally mottled and lightly marked with age. Binding sound and well preserved. Textblock edges stained red.Internally a notably well-margined copy printed in a strong clear Roman type. The leaves remain generally clean and well preserved with scattered light age-toning spotting and foxing somewhat more noticeable to the title page and occasionally towards the outer margins.Two large decorative woodcut initials are present including an especially attractive figurative historiated initial at the opening of the first chapter.No significant worming tears or textual loss observed in the leaves examined.Please see Photos as part of condition report.REFERENCESAdams: P1957.British Museum Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in Italy 14651600: p. 537.Moreni Domenico: Annali della tipografia fiorentina di Lorenzo Torrentino p. 92 no. XVII.Folger Shakespeare Library: An homo bonus vel malus volens fiat Simonis Portii disputatio Florence 1551.SYNOPSISPorzio begins with an apparently straightforwa - For full description please contact the seller [Lorenzo Torrentino] hardcover

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