Lorenzo Minio-Paluello

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Lorenzo Minio-Paluello (born September 21, 1907 in Belluno , † May 6, 1986 in Oxford ) was an Italian historian of philosophy, classical and Middle Latin philologist.

Life

Minio Paluello was the son of Michelangelo Minio (* 1872 in Venice ; † 1960 ibid.), An Italian naturalist and botanist and teacher in secondary schools, and Ersilia Bisson. He was born into a noble Venetian family. Through an adoption process, Michelangelo Minio's sons were given the addition of Paluello to their name. Minio Paluello attended the liceo ginnasio Foscarini in Venice and received his doctorate in Kant from the University of Padua in 1929 with a dissertation on Teoria della storia e gnoseologia . His academic teachers included C. Marchesi, B. Terracini and above all Manara Valgimigli , with whom he had a deep friendship and with whom he collaborated on the Italian translation of Plato's works for the Laterza publishing house (the translation of Kratylos , Bari 1931) .

Minio-Paluello worked as a library assistant until 1932. At that time he went to Paris to deepen his medieval skills , where he attended the University of Paris IV , the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France to hear the lectures of Étienne Gilson . In 1933 he returned to Italy, where he found an oppressive situation. When he refused to join the National Fascist Party , the situation only got worse. He taught at a school in Istria until 1935 , when he was dismissed from the public school service. In 1938 he married Magda Ungar, who was of Jewish origin, which made the situation even more difficult. In the autumn of the same year he received an invitation to Oxford from WD Ross , the Provost of Oriel College , where he arrived in 1939.

When Italy entered the war in 1940, he was interned on the Isle of Man for five months , but was eventually released. As a result, he was even able to work with the British Ministry of Defense . From August 1, 1942 to January 1943, he was a member of the Free Italy - Libera Italia association in the role of a consultant; the club had a section on Radio London and Minio Paluello was responsible for the broadcasts in Italian. The tapes of the programs broadcast between December 1940 and May 1942 are kept at the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini in Florence . His political statements against fascism , such as the essays on education in Italy and on relations between Italy and Germany , also fall during this period .

In Oxford between 1939 and 1945 he worked with Raymond Klibansky on the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi and prepared his dissertation on The methods of translator of philosophical works from Greek into Latin in the Middle Ages . After obtaining his doctorate in Oxford in 1947, he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute in London from 1947 to 1948 and became a senior lecturer in medieval philosophy at Oriel College in 1948. In 1956 he was appointed reader in this position and from 1962 to 1975 professorial fellow. Eventually he became an emeritus and honorary fellow at Oriel College. Among other things, he held the Barlow lectures in London in 1955 and, after competing for a position as a full professor, taught medieval and humanistic philology in Padua from 1956 to 1957. But then he decided to return to Oxford.

Awards

In 1957 he was elected a member of the British Academy , from 1969 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , from 1970 he was a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America , from 1971 he was a foreign member from the American Philosophical Society and from 1975 at the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , from 1977 at the Accademia Patavina , from 1980 at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and the Oxford Dante Society . In 1975 he received the medal from the Collège de France .

Research priorities

In his dissertation, Minio-Paluello initially worked primarily on the translation methodology from Greek into Latin based on philosophical texts. These include the translation of the Platonic Phaedo by Henricus Aristippus and the large number of texts belonging to Aristotle Latinus . He also edited the Aristotelian categories and the book On Interpretation and a two-volume edition of logical texts from the 12th century.

His most important contribution was his work on Aristotle Latinus, a project of the Catholic University of Leuven , with which the history of philosophy in the Middle Ages was to be rewritten. From 1947 on he was a member of the editorial board and also made an extraordinary contribution to ensuring that the research for the preparation of the catalog of the Aristotelian Codices , which was carried out by G. Lacombe with A. Birkenmajer, M. Dulong and Ezio Franceschini before the war, is not forgotten (Minio Paluello had been friends with him since his studies). In 1947 he became director of the company in succession to Augustin Mansion and remained so until the end of 1973 when Gerard Verbeke succeeded him. While he ran the company, he oversaw numerous text-critical editions entrusted to scholars from all over the world. He lent all his support to Aristotle Latinus until his retirement in 1976.

Fonts (selection)

dissertation
  • The methods of translator of philosophical works from Greek into Latin in the Middle Ages. D. Phil. thesis Oxford 1947.
Critical edition of Aristotle
  • Aristotelis categoriae et liber de interpretatione , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1949, second edition 1956 (authoritative critical edition)

Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi , later Plato Latinus

  • Volume II: Phaedo, interprete Henrico Aristippo. Warburg Institute, London 1950 (the first volume was created by Raymond Klibansky)
Text-critical editions of logical texts of the 12th century
  • Twelfth Century Logic. Texts and Studies , I: Adam Balsamiensis Parvipontani Ars disserendi (Dialectica Alexandri). Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1956.
  • Twelfth Century Logic. Texts and Studies, II: Abelardiana Inedita. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 1958.
Aristotle Latinus
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume I 1-5: Categoriae vel praedicamenta. Translatio Boethii, Editio Composite, Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka, Lemmata e Simplicii commentario decerpta, Pseudo-Augustini Paraphrasis Themistiana. Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges et al. 1961 (contains Boethius' translation of categories )
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume I 6–7: Categoriarum supplementa: Porphyrii isagoge, translatio Boethii, et anonymi fragmentum vulgo vocatum “Liber sex principiorum”. Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges et al. 1966 (contains the Isagoge translation by Boethius)
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume II 1–2: De interpretatione vel periermenias: translatio Boethii, specimina translationum recentiorum. Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges and Paris 1965 (contains Boethius' translation of De interpretatione )
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume III 1–4: Analytica priora: translatio Boethii (recensiones duae), translatio anonyma, Pseudo-Philoponi aliorumque scholia, specimina translationum recentiorum . Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges et al. 1962 (contains p. 1–191 the two versions of Boethius' translation of the Analytica priora ; the p. 293–372 edited scholia are also by Boethius)
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume IV 1-4 (with BG Dod): Analytica posteriora (Iacobi Venetici translationis recensio, anonymi sive Ioannis, Gerardi et recensio Guillelmi de Moerbeka). Desclée de Brouwer, Bruges et al. 1968
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume V 1-3: Topica: translatio Boethii, fragmentum recensionis alterius, et translatio anonyma. Brill, Leiden 1969 (contains Boethius' translation of the topic )
  • Aristotle Latinus. Volume XI 1-2 (editio altera): De mundo . Translationes Bartholomaei et Nicholai. Ed. WL Lorimer, rev. L. Minio-Paluello, Desclée De Brouwer, Bruges-Paris 1965 (First ed. By WL Lorimer, La Libreria dello Stato, Roma 1951)
Political essays
  • Education in fascist Italy, London 1946
  • M .: The Germans and Italy, in: PENTAD (collective pseudonym of PP Fano, AF Magri, L. Minio-Paluello, R. Orlando, I. Thomas), The remaking of Italy , New York 1941, pp. 55-113 (Minio Paluello's authorship has been confirmed by Ivor Bulmer Thomas and the material in the Fondazione Franceschini)

literature

  • William Kneale : Lorenzo Minio – Paluello, 1907–1986 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy 72, 1986, 441-454, (online) (with illustration Plate XXVII)

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personal data
SURNAME Minio-Paluello, Lorenzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minio Paluello, Lorenzo; Minio, Lorenzo (name before adoption)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian of philosophy, classical philologist and Middle Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Belluno
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1986
Place of death Oxford