The Rise of Aristotle in the Italian Renaissance

By the 16th century, languages like Italian were emerging for the first time as an instrument of scientific communication. The emergence of new forms of Aristotelianism in the Italian Renaissance goes hand-in-hand with a resurgence of his greatest medieval commentator Ibn Rushd known in Latin as Averuis. In episodes to come, we'll be surveying distinctive developments in one particular type of Renaissance Aristotelia that carries on most directly from medieval scholasticism.