Charles de Bouelles

Charles de Bouelles (* 1479 ; † 1567 ; Latinized spelling Carolus Bovillus ) was a French philosopher , theologian and paremiologist .

Geometry practique , 1551

Carolus Bovillus was a student of the French reform humanist and Bible translator Jakob Faber Stapulensis . Ernst Cassirer describes Bovillus' De sapiente from 1509 as "perhaps the strangest and in some respects the most characteristic creation of Renaissance philosophy". In connection with Thomas Campanella, Ernst Bloch mentions Bovillus, referring to his treatise "De Nihilo", a pupil of Nicholas of Cusa .

Fonts

Theologicarum conclusionum Caroli Bouilli Samarobrini libri decem: quorum quinque primi necessaria dei nomina atque praedicata pertractant residui vero quinque divina nomina contingentia trutinantur ... - Paris: vaenundantur a Badio, 1515. urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-18592
Caroli Bouilli Samarobrini. Quaestionum theologicarum Libri septem: centenas atque ita in universe septingentas quaestiones & eorum Solutiones complectentes ... Badius ascensus, Paris 20 April 1513. urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-18613
De sapiente (1509)
Liber de intellectu . Stephen & Parvus, Paris 1510. urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-18589
Caroli Bovilli Samarobrini proverbiorum vulgarium libri tres Paris 1531.

modern editions:

La différence des langues vulgaires et la variété de la langue française (Liber de differentia vulgarium linguarum et Gallici sermonis varietate) , ed. by Colette Demaizière, Paris 1973
Lettres et poèmes de Charles de Bovelles : édition critique, introduction et commentaire du ms. 1134 de la Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris par Jean-Claude Margolin, Paris: Champion, 2002, ISBN 2-7453-0658-8
Le livre du sage : introduction, nouvelle traduction et notes par Pierre Magnard, Paris: Vrin, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7116-2252-8
Tractatus de nihilo (1509), reprinted in Martini Schoockii Tractatus Philosophicus De Nihilo. Accessit ejusdem argumenti Libellus Caroli Bovilli: Atque Johannis Passeratii accuratissimum Poema De Nihilo ... Groningae: Edzard Agricola, 1661, pp. 145-214 (including biography and Schook's commentary). http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id353489034 .

literature

Tamara Albertini: Man as a metamorphic center of the world - reflections on a figure of thought of the Renaissance (Bovelles, Ficino, Pico) . In: Paul Richard Blum (ed.): Sapientiam amemus: Humanism and Aristotelianism in the Renaissance Munich: Fink, 1999, pp. 63-89-108.
Dominik Bertrand-Pfaff: Bouelles, Charles de. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 149-154. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Tamara Albertini: Charles de Bovelles' Enigmatic Liber de Sapiente: A Heroic Notion of Wisdom . In: Intellectual History Review 21 (2011), Issue 3, pages 297-306. doi : 10.1080 / 17496977.2011.598277 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Cassirer: Individual and Kosmos in the Philosophy of the Renaissance, Darmstadt 3rd A. 1963, p. 138 (1st AS 93).
^ Lectures on the philosophy of the Renaissance , part of the Leipzig lectures 1952-1956; Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972, p. 49.

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personal data
SURNAME	Bouelles, Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carolus Bovillus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French philosopher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1479
DATE OF DEATH	1567

[1] Ernst Cassirer: Individual and Kosmos in the Philosophy of the Renaissance, Darmstadt 3rd A. 1963, p. 138 (1st AS 93).

[2] Lectures on the philosophy of the Renaissance , part of the Leipzig lectures 1952-1956; Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1972, p. 49.