James of Venice[1] was a Catholic cleric and significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called "the first systematic translator of Aristotle since Boethius."[2] Not much is otherwise known about him.[3]
He was active in particular in Constantinople;[4] he translated the Posterior Analytics from Greek to Latin in the period 1125–1150.[5][6] This made available in Western Europe for the first time in half a millennium what was then called the New Logic, in other words the full Organon. He also translated Physics, On the Soul, and Metaphysics[7] (the oldest known Latin translation of the work).[8][9]
See also
Notes
- ^ Giacomo da Venezia, Jacobus Veneticus Grecus, Iacobus Veneticus Grecus, Jacobus Clericus de Venetia, Jacobus de Venetiis.
- ^ Walter Berschin - 4. Venice
- ^ PDF, p. 5.
- ^ Translators
- ^ "PDF" (PDF). bc.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-17. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ^ tinet.org gives the date 1128 for several works.
- ^ Aristotelianism: The later Latin tradition – Britannica
- ^ James of Venice – encyclopedia.com
- ^ The Logic Museum
References
- L. Minio-Paluello, "Iacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle." Traditio 8 (1952), 265–304
- Sten Ebbesen (1977). "Jacobus Veneticus on the Posterior Analytics and Some Early Thirteenth-century Oxford Masters on the Elenchi." Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen âge grec et Latin 2, 1-9.