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Francesco Patrizi Bibliography


  • La città felice (The happy city), 1551
  • Discorso della diversità de ‘furori poetici (treatise on the diversity of poetic emotions), 1553
  • Lettura sopra il sonetto del Petrarca “La gola, e’l sonno, e l’ociose piume” (Analyzation of the sonnet), 1553
  • Dialogo dell’honore (Dialogue on Honor), 1553
  •  L’Eridano (Der Po)/ Badoaro, late 1550s
  • Della historia diece dialoghi (Ten dialogues of the Venetian scholar), 1560
  • Della retorica dialoghi dieci (Ten dialogues on rhetoric), 1562
  • Discussiones Peripateticae (Peripatetic Examinations), 1571
  • A Letter of 26 June 1572 to Bernardino Telesio
  • La militia romana di Polibio, di Tito Livio, e di Dionigi Alicarnaseo (The Roman warfare after Polybios, Titus Livius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus), 1573
  • Apologia contra calumnias Theodori Angelutii (Defense against Teodoro Angelucci’s defamation), 1584
  • Parere in difesa dell’Ariosto, 1585
  • Poetica, 1586
  • Della nuova geometria
  • Philosophia de rerum natura (Philosophy on the nature of things), 1587
    • De spacio physico (About the physical space)
    • De spacio mathematico (About the mathematical space)
  • Zoroaster et eius CCCXX oracula Chaldaica (Zarathustra and its 320 Chaldean oracles)
  • Nova de universis philosophia (New Philosophy of Things in its entirety), 1591
  • De numerorum mysteriis (About the Secrets of Numbers), 1594
  • Paralleli militari (Military Comparisons), 1594-1595

Secondary Source

  • Gulizia, Stefano. “Francesco Patrizi Da Cherso and the Anti-Aristotelian Tradition: Interpreting the Discussiones Peripateticae (1581).” Intellectual history review 29.4 (2019): 561–573. Web.

This journal offers a new interpretation of the Discussiones Peripateticae by Patrizi, which differs from the common interpretations. Patrizi was a pioneer on criticism during Renaissance by historical context, and he was also influential as an anti-Aristotelian on Ancient Greek natural philosophy. Within the participation of anti-Aristotelianism, Patrizi also focused on philological-historical thoughts.

  • Deitz, Luc. “Francesco Patrizi Da Cherso’s Criticism of Aristotle’s Logic.” Vivarium, vol. 45, no. 1, Brill, 2007, pp. 113–24, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41963774.

This journal had given a brief explanation of the analysis in Discussiones Peripateticae of Patrizi. Patrizi explained that Aristotle’s works contained Platonist views that are true, but in another respect contained new thoughts that are possibly debatable. He argued that many of Aristotle’s words were dependent on other early Ancient Greek philosophers.

  • Blum, Paul Richard. “History and Theory: The Paradox in Francesco Patrizi.” Intellectual history review 29.4 (2019): 649–654. Web.

This journal is a review of Ten Dialogues on History. Patrizi informed about the fundamental structure and the essence of history. Patrizi also gave a sense of the relationship between time, memory, and history, as well as the essence of history’s relationship with the human mind and documentation of history (in the third dialogue.)