Acknowledgments; Sources and Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; Logic in Context; Vernacular in Context; Prospectus; Chapter Two Language, Vernacular and Philosophy; Res vs. Verba; The Shadow of Pomponazzi; The Accademia degli Infiammati; Chapter Three Sperone Speroni between Language and Logic; Wisdom and Eloquence; Speroni's Pomponazzi; Speroni's Most Loyal Disciple: Bernardino Tomitano; Chapter Four Benedetto Varchi and the Idea of a Vernacular Logic (1540); Aristotelian Anthropology; Varchi's Logical Library; Varchi's Logic at the Accademia degli Infiammati; The Universals
Method and OrderAn Anonymous Dialogue; Chapter Five Antonio Tridapale and the First Vernacular Logic (1547); Antonio Tridapale and Knowledge as Power; The Elements of Logic; The Operations of Logic; Chapter Six Nicolò Masa's Logic for Natural Philosophy (1549); Nicolò Massa between Philosophy and Medicine; The Elements of Argumentation; Scientific Demonstration; Chapter Seven Alessandro Piccolomini's Instrument of Philosophy (1551); Piccolomini in Padua; A New Instrument; The Structure of Logic; Logic for Natural Philosophy; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Vernacular and Logic
The Logician in the Printing PressesBibliography; Index
Summary
The Italian Mind explores Italian vernacular logical textbooks and shows their fundamental contributions to the thought of the period, which anticipated many of the features of early modern philosophy and contributied to a new conception of knowledge
