Philosopher, physician, and humanist, Bernardino Tomitano became a doctor in artibus et medicina at the University of Padua, where he was professor of logic from 1539 to 1563. Tomitano was one of the greatest representatives of humanistic Aristotelianism, which was affirmed in the Paduan school in the middle of the sixteenth century. His work was an important link between the speculation of the beginning of the 1500s and the more mature and systematic work of his famous disciple Jacopo Zabarella. His teaching was characterized by the choice of reading Aristotle in the original Greek with philological expertise, by the preference reserved for ancient Greek commentators and modern humanists, and by the frequent recourse to Plato’s authority. Tomitano’s contribution to logical thought consisted in the centrality of the questions of method, in the theory of regressus as a fundamental logical tool for progressing in the knowledge of natural facts, in the instrumental conception of logic, and in the definition of sermocinal arts (grammar, rhetoric, poetics) as logical arts. From his participation in the Accademia degli Infiammati of Padua, in the first part of 1540, the rhetorical and linguistic treatise Ragionamenti della lingua toscana originated, which was extended in 1570 into the Quattro libri della lingua thoscana, in which the main interlocutor was his master Sperone Speroni. The work was intended to promote oratory prose and “high” genre writing in Italian in general and gathered together several issues concerning the arts of the word in an organic synthesis that had at its core the theme of the relationship between philosophy and eloquence.
Filosofo, medico e umanista padovano, Bernardino Tomitano si addottora in artibus et medicina presso l’Università di Padova, dove sarà poi docente di logica dal 1539 al 1563. Rappresentante di rilievo dell’artistotelismo umanistico che si afferma all’interno della scuola padovana a metà Cinquecento, l’opera del T. è tramite importante fra la speculazione d’inizio secolo, di ispirazione ancora quattrocentesca, e quella più matura e sistematica del suo illustre allievo Giacomo Zabarella e di Francesco Piccolomini. Il suo insegnamento si caratterizza per la scelta di leggere Aristotele nell’originale greco con perizia filologica; per la preferenza riservata agli antichi commentatori greci e ai moderni umanistici; per il frequente ricorso all’autorità di Platone. Il contributo portato dal T. al pensiero logico consiste nella centralità delle questioni di metodo; nella trattazione del regressus come strumento logico fondamentale per il progresso nella conoscenza dei fatti naturali; nella concezione strumentale della logica; nella definizione delle arti sermocinali (grammatica, retorica, poetica) come arti logiche. Dalla sua partecipazione all’Accademia degli Infiammati di Padova, nei primi anni ᾽40, ha origine il trattato di carattere retorico e linguistico Ragionamenti della lingua toscana, ampliato nel 1570 nei Quattro libri della lingua thoscana, nei quali il principale interlocutore è il maestro Sperone Speroni. L’opera intende promuovere la prosa oratoria e in genere la scrittura di genere ‘alto’ in lingua italiana e raccoglie le molteplici questioni relative alle arti della parola in una sintesi organica che ha al centro il tema del rapporto tra sapienza filosofica ed eloquenza.
Girardi, M., Voce "Tomitano, Bernardino", in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Springer, Cham, Basilea 2017: 1-6. 10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_362-1 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/115812]
Tomitano, Bernardino
Girardi, Mariateresa
2017
Abstract
Philosopher, physician, and humanist, Bernardino Tomitano became a doctor in artibus et medicina at the University of Padua, where he was professor of logic from 1539 to 1563. Tomitano was one of the greatest representatives of humanistic Aristotelianism, which was affirmed in the Paduan school in the middle of the sixteenth century. His work was an important link between the speculation of the beginning of the 1500s and the more mature and systematic work of his famous disciple Jacopo Zabarella. His teaching was characterized by the choice of reading Aristotle in the original Greek with philological expertise, by the preference reserved for ancient Greek commentators and modern humanists, and by the frequent recourse to Plato’s authority. Tomitano’s contribution to logical thought consisted in the centrality of the questions of method, in the theory of regressus as a fundamental logical tool for progressing in the knowledge of natural facts, in the instrumental conception of logic, and in the definition of sermocinal arts (grammar, rhetoric, poetics) as logical arts. From his participation in the Accademia degli Infiammati of Padua, in the first part of 1540, the rhetorical and linguistic treatise Ragionamenti della lingua toscana originated, which was extended in 1570 into the Quattro libri della lingua thoscana, in which the main interlocutor was his master Sperone Speroni. The work was intended to promote oratory prose and “high” genre writing in Italian in general and gathered together several issues concerning the arts of the word in an organic synthesis that had at its core the theme of the relationship between philosophy and eloquence.
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