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This paper deals with the conception of rhetoric of one of the most prominent Renaissance scholars, Francesco Robortello, and focuses in particular on his vernacular manuscript entitled Dell’oratore, probably his final statement on the topic, the transcription of which is included in the appendix. The study of the manuscript will be integrated with the examination of Robortello’s Latin published works on rhetoric, that is De rhetorica facultate (1548) and De artificio dicendi (1567), as well as of some of his schemes in printed and manuscript form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the 16th century Italian philosopher Benedetto Varchi's perspective on the soul, including his support of Aristotelian philosophy and his belief in the immortality of the soul. An overview of Varchi's attitude towards the thought of the Islamic philosopher Averroes, including in regard to the agent and the intellect, is provided.

The paper aims to examine straightforwardly Thomas White's Sciri, sive Sceptices et scepticorum jure disputationis exclusio (1663) and to contextualise it in the broadest intellectual framework of the seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. From the examination of the Exclusio we can see the novelty and freshness of White's Aristotelian positions in attacking all kinds of scepticism. These originalities are the subject of the present article, rather than the well-known controversy with Joseph Glanvill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The aim of the paper is to reassess the role of British Aristotelianism within the history of early modern logic between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a crucial moment of cultural transition from the model of humanistic rhetoric and dialectic to that of facultative logic, that is, a logic which concerns the study of the cognitive powers of the mind. The paper shows that there is a special connection between Paduan Aristotelianism and British empiricism, through the mediation of British Aristotelianism. British Aristotelians took the ideas of the Paduan Aristotelian tradition and carried them to an extreme, gradually removing them from the original Aristotelian context in which they were grounded and developing what would later become the fundamental ideas of British empiricism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the influence of German philosopher Abraham Calov on fellow German philosopher Immanuel Kant's evaluations of Aristotelian and Scholastic teachings. More specifically, the author investigates Calov's role in shaping Kant's philosophical understandings of metaphysics and transcendental philosophy. Kant's ontological thought on the notions of being and nothingness are also outlined, as well as his epistemological system of architectonics. In order to account for this alleged influence, the author explains the teaching of Calov's work in German universities.