BPHV raccoglie testi significativi del sapere medievale e rinascimentale,
nelle versioni occidentali ed orientali, secondo una duplice organizzazione:
a) geografica, dove l'accento è posto sul rapporto tra i centri in cui il sapere si sviluppa e si irradia verso le periferie:
b) tematica:
The Abbreviatio in I Sententiarum Aegidii Romani of James of Viterbo has long been regarded as a shortened form of the ordinatio of Giles of Rome’s Commentary on the first book of the Sententiae of Peter Lombard.
The Book of Nabatean Agriculture has been translated into Arabic in the 10th century from
Pomponazzi published his Apologia in Bologna, in 1518 (per magistrum Iustinianum Leonardi Ruberiensem).
The book was printed in 1556, edited by Dorandino Falcone di Gioia, who translated a previous Latin version, that will be published only in 1602.
Asclepius is the Latin translation of an original Greek treatise of second or third century, entitled Logos teleios and sometimes mistakenly included among the works of Apuleius (second century).
Bocados de oro or Bonium is the title of a didactic treatise in prose dating back to the mid-thirteenth century and belonging to the sapiential literatur
Capitulum de arbore borissa is a short treatise containing the magical, alchemical and medical explanation of borissa, a plant that belongs to the genre of Lunariae.
It is an anthology of one hundred astrological aphorisms of Arab origin, written by Stephen of Messina between 1258 and 1266, and dedicated to Manfredi of Sicily.
Latin edition and commentary in two books of Centiloquium pseudo-Ptolemaic, translated by Pontano from original in greek.
The Compendium Aureum, also known as Tractatus de septem herbis septem planetis attributis, accompanies the De consideratione quintae essentiae of the Franciscan John of Rupescissa (14th century) in numerous manusc
The dialogues on philosophical topics, which were attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, and were composed between the 1st century and the 2nd century AD, were brought together in the Corpus Hermeticum by the Byzantine scholar Michael Psellos.
The De summa hominis dignitate dialogus qui inscribitur Via Christi et Crater Hermetis is a philosophical dialogue witten in prosimeter.
Lazzarelli plays the role of teacher and prophet. He shows his disciples, through a hermetic and Christian path, how to reach happiness and salvation.
We have the autograph manuscript of this text; it is stored in the Lincei Archive and belonged to Federico Cesi, the Academy founder.
Ethical treatise on the virtue of benefaction, drawn up in the years 1493-1494 and printed in 1498.
Ethical treatise on the behavior of the courtier, written after the printing of the De principe, De obedientia and of the De fortitudine.
Treatise in two books written around 1480-1890. The text belongs to the first phase of the ethical-political production, which also includes the De principe and the De obedientia.
Ethical treatise in three books centered on the relationship between virtue and fortune, published by Pietro Summonte in Naples, in 1512, for the types of Sigismund Mayr.
Ethical treatise on the virtue of liberality, written after the printing of the De principe, De obedientia and of the De fortitudine.
Fragment of an astrological text that relates to the moon and its influence.
The text is part of a trilogy of natural and astrological writings of Pontano, made in prose, which belong to the last phase of his theoretical elaboration.
