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James of Venice

James of Venice

12th-century scholar

James of Venice[1] was a Catholic cleric and significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called "the first systematic translator of Aristotle since Boethius."[2] Not much is otherwise known about him.[3]

He was active in particular in Constantinople;[4] he translated the Posterior Analytics from Greek to Latin in the period 1125–1150.[5][6] This made available in Western Europe for the first time in half a millennium what was then called the New Logic, in other words the full Organon. He also translated Physics, On the Soul, and Metaphysics[7] (the oldest known Latin translation of the work).[8][9]

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Giacomo da Venezia, Jacobus Veneticus Grecus, Iacobus Veneticus Grecus, Jacobus Clericus de Venetia, Jacobus de Venetiis.
  2. [2]
    Walter Berschin - 4. Venice
  3. [3]
    PDF Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, p. 5.
  4. [4]
    Translators
  5. [5]
    "PDF" (PDF). bc.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-17. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
  6. [6]
    tinet.org gives the date 1128 for several works.
  7. [7]
    Aristotelianism: The later Latin tradition – Britannica
  8. [8]
    James of Venice – encyclopedia.com
  9. [9]
    The Logic Museum

References

  • L. Minio-Paluello, "Iacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle." Traditio 8 (1952), 265–304
  • Sten Ebbesen (1977). "Jacobus Veneticus on the Posterior Analytics and Some Early Thirteenth-century Oxford Masters on the Elenchi." Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen âge grec et Latin 2, 1-9.
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