The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza's Ethics, is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance. On 23 September 1677, it was handed over to the Roman Holy Office by Spinoza's former friend Niels Stensen who had converted to Catholicism in 1667. Thus, it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma, which is dated 1677, but which did not in fact appear until the first months of 1678. The research presented in this book (with the complete transcription of the Ethics manuscript) allow us to determine the several stages of the manuscript's life before it reached Rome, where it was kept in the Archive of the Holy Office, and subsequently, transferred to the Vatican Apostolic Library, in 1922.
Nel volume sono pubblicati un'ampia Introduzione, la trascrizione completa del manoscritto dell'"Ethica" di Spinoza (l'unico finora rinvenuto, scoperto nella Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) e ampi Apparati di commento, Note bio-bibliografiche, Schede e materiali diversi finalizzati a illustrare l'importanza di questa eccezionale scoperta d'archivio, la più significativa, forse, in relazione a un autore di età moderna.
P. TOTARO - L. SPRUIT, The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethica, Leiden-New York, Brill, 2011
2011
Abstract
The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza's Ethics, is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance. On 23 September 1677, it was handed over to the Roman Holy Office by Spinoza's former friend Niels Stensen who had converted to Catholicism in 1667. Thus, it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma, which is dated 1677, but which did not in fact appear until the first months of 1678. The research presented in this book (with the complete transcription of the Ethics manuscript) allow us to determine the several stages of the manuscript's life before it reached Rome, where it was kept in the Archive of the Holy Office, and subsequently, transferred to the Vatican Apostolic Library, in 1922.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
