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1. Introducing Aristotle to the sixteenth century : the Lefevre enterprise / Eckhard Kessler -- 2. Learning the syllogisms : Byzantine visual aids in Renaissance Italy : Ermolao Barbaro (1454-93) and others / Letizia Panizza -- 3. Philology and philosophy in the margins of early printed editions of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, with special reference to copies held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan / Silvia Fazzo -- 4. The cultural programmes of Alessandro Piccolomini and Sperone Speroni at the Paduan Accademia degli Infiammati in the 1540s / Heikki Mikkeli -- 5. Antistrophic rhetoric in Renaissance Rome and Padua / Jean Dietz Moss -- 6. Aristotle commentary and ethical behaviour : Bernardo Segni on friendship between unequals (Ethica d'Aristotile tradotta in lingua fiorentina et commentata, 1550) / Ullrich Langer -- 7. La politique d'Aristote en francais par Louis Le Roy (1568) / Pierre Lardet -- 8. Individual and community in the 'second scholastic' : subjective rights in Domingo de Soto and Francisco Suarez / Annabel Brett -- 9. Lutheran uses of Aristotle : a comparison between Jacob Schegk and Philip Melanchthon / Sachiko Kusukawa -- 10. The teaching of Aristotle in late sixteenth-century Tubingen / Charlotte Methuen -- 11.

Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), humanist and colleague of Martin Luther, is best known for his educational reforms, for which he earned the title Praeceptor Germaniae (the Teacher of Germany). His most influential form of philosophical writing was the academic oration, and this volume, first published in 1999, presents a large and wide-ranging selection of his orations and textbook prefaces translated into English. They set out his views on the distinction between faith and reason, the role of philosophy in education, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, astronomy and astrology, and the importance of philosophy to a true Christian, as well as his views on Classical philosophical authorities such as Plato and Aristotle and on contemporaries such as Erasmus and Luther. Powerfully influential in their time, inspiring many Protestant students to study philosophy, mathematics and natural philosophy, they illuminate the relationship between Renaissance and Reformation thought