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The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Vol. 2: Pauli Veneti Expositio in Duodecim Libros Metaphisice Aristotelis, Liber VII

A 220,000-word critical edition of the core part of a formerly unedited, gigantic early Renaissance commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which represents a philosophically engaging synthesis of the medieval tradition of literary commentaries on the Metaphysics. Since no Renaissance edition of the text edited is available, the present work makes one of the crucial texts in the development of medieval metaphysics accessible to a wide readership. The book, which demanded more than five years’ work in collation and research, deals with about 3000 textual variants and as many sources, and is accompanied by a philological and palaeographical introduction.