The transmission of philosophy from manuscript to printed text : The case of Maldonado's De origine, natura et immortalitate animae

Abstract

In this paper, I investigate the publication of an academic manuscript, which I recently edited, in a later printed book issued by the same academic institution and addressing the same topic. This case study, whose main actors are two Jesuits lecturing on philosophy in Paris between 1564 and 1580, Juan Maldonado and Girolamo Dandini, focuses on the relation between handwritten and printed texts, and on the value of such a cross-reading.

Keywords

• Scientia de anima
• Jesuit colleges
• manuscript courses-notes
• Renaissance Aristotelianism
• theory of cognition
• active mind