Può un uomo generarsi nell’utero di una capra o di una cagna? Una quaestio di Urbano da Bologna nel commento alla Physica di Averroè, 2023
By: Mario Loconsole
Title Può un uomo generarsi nell’utero di una capra o di una cagna? Una quaestio di Urbano da Bologna nel commento alla Physica di Averroè
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2023
Journal Noctua
Volume X
Issue 1
Pages 46-105
Categories Averroism, Latin Averroism, Natural Philosophy, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Mario Loconsole
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In Latin Europe, the controversy over spontaneous generation of perfect animals – namely those whose breeding occurs through sexual reproduction – is received in different ways, varying from positions very close to Avicenna’s, as in the case of Pietro Pomponazzi, to interpretations that rather refer to Averroes’ perspective. To this ‘Averroist front’ undoubtedly belongs the figure of Urbano da Bologna, author of the Expositio commenti Averrois in VIII libros Physicorum – a work that can be defined a supercommentary to Averroes’ Physica – composed in Bologna around 1334. The present study aims to provide the complete transcription of a quaestio that is present in the work – but which was disputed according to its author also in public – as an example of the elaboration of the theme of spontaneous generation in the early 14th century. The text deals with many aspects of the problem, especially elaborating on the correspondence between each specific form and its appropriate matter, in the light of the lively debates of the time, and reveals a mature understanding of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and its Averroist interpretation.

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Averroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun and Agostino Nifo, 2015
By: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Title Averroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun and Agostino Nifo
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2015
Published in Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West
Pages 69–88
Categories Natural Philosophy, Tradition and Reception, Latin Averroism
Author(s) Dag Nikolaus Hasse
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Averroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun and Agostino Nifo, 2015
By: Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Title Averroes’ Critique of Ptolemy and Its Reception by John of Jandun and Agostino Nifo
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2015
Published in Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West
Pages 69–88
Categories Natural Philosophy, Tradition and Reception, Latin Averroism
Author(s) Dag Nikolaus Hasse
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Può un uomo generarsi nell’utero di una capra o di una cagna? Una quaestio di Urbano da Bologna nel commento alla Physica di Averroè, 2023
By: Mario Loconsole
Title Può un uomo generarsi nell’utero di una capra o di una cagna? Una quaestio di Urbano da Bologna nel commento alla Physica di Averroè
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 2023
Journal Noctua
Volume X
Issue 1
Pages 46-105
Categories Averroism, Latin Averroism, Natural Philosophy, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Mario Loconsole
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In Latin Europe, the controversy over spontaneous generation of perfect animals – namely those whose breeding occurs through sexual reproduction – is received in different ways, varying from positions very close to Avicenna’s, as in the case of Pietro Pomponazzi, to interpretations that rather refer to Averroes’ perspective. To this ‘Averroist front’ undoubtedly belongs the figure of Urbano da Bologna, author of the Expositio commenti Averrois in VIII libros Physicorum – a work that can be defined a supercommentary to Averroes’ Physica – composed in Bologna around 1334. The present study aims to provide the complete transcription of a quaestio that is present in the work – but which was disputed according to its author also in public – as an example of the elaboration of the theme of spontaneous generation in the early 14th century. The text deals with many aspects of the problem, especially elaborating on the correspondence between each specific form and its appropriate matter, in the light of the lively debates of the time, and reveals a mature understanding of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and its Averroist interpretation.

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