In librum Aristotelis de arte Poëtica … — Florence 1548

In librum Aristotelis de arte Poëtica, explicationes. Qui ab eodem ex manuscriptis libris, multis in locis emendatus fuit, ut iam difficillimus, ac obscurißimus liber a nullo ante declaratus, facile ab omnibus poßit intelligi.
[Acc.:] Paraphrasis in librum Horatii, qui vulgo De arte poetica ad Pisones inscribitur. Eiusdem explicationes De satyra, De epigrammatae … Quae omnia ad poeticam spectaret, desiderari posset: Nam in iis scribendis Aristotelis methodum servavit: & ex ipsius libello de arte Poetica principia sumpsit omnium suarum explicationum. — Florentiae In Officina Laurentii Torrenti, Ducalis typographi, MDXLVIII

Florence, Torrentino, 1548

First edition
Folio (315 x 216 mm). *6 A-Z, Aa-Dd6 aa4 bb-dd6 ee-gg4: (6) leaves, 322 pp., (1) blank leaf; (1) leaf, 64 pp. Faint foxing at the very outer margins. Tear in the inner margin of Riii; a few wormholes to the title-page of the second part. 19th century quarter calf. – Adams A 1903; ustc 852746; Edit16 34564; Hoffmann I 282.

„One of the most significant texts of the Renaissance.“ (M. Sgarbi, F. Robortello. Architectural Genius of the Humanities. NY/London 2020, p. 20)

„In 1548, [Robotello] submitted to the press the first commentary ever printed on Aristotle’s Poetics, which immediately became a point of departure for subsequent scholarship on the topic.“ (Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy)

„The interpretation given to Aristotle’s Poetics between 1550 and 1600 in Italy (Robortello and others) created a theoretical framework which proved to be very influential. The new Renaissance notion of fiction is based on an understanding of reality which is not compatible with Aristotle’s view. For Aristotle, the purpose of mimesis is not the presentation of events which might conform to actual reality and its contingencies. Its purpose is to present a possible action, which is possible because it conforms to the general nature of a character. Thus, it might be said that a productive transformation of the relation between possibility and reality in Aristotle is at the heart of the Renaissance concept of the poetry of imitation.“ (A. Schmitt, Die Poetik des Aristoteles und ihre Neudeutung in der Dichtungstheorie des Secondo Cinquecento)