Aristóteles em Coimbra: Cursus Conimbricensis e a educação no Collegium Artium

Philosophy at the Geopolitical Service of Mission: The Coimbra Jesuits’ “Wirkungsgeographie” (1542–1730)

“…36 It remains impossible to fully understand the geographical dissemination of the Cursus Conimbricensis-literally from Lisbon to Kiev and Moscow-or to arrive at an accurate picture of its numerous editions. However, it would appear that, between 1592 and 1730, with the latter year being the one in which the Coimbra volume on Dialectica was published together with Fonseca's parallel title, Institutionum dialecticarum (Dialectical instructions), 37 almost all the titles knew from nineteen (Physica, Meteororum) to twenty-two editions (Ethica, De caelo, Parva naturalia); De generatione ran to twenty editions and the De anima twenty-one. An average of more than one title per year was being published, and some of the major Central European publishing houses were highly enthusiastic about the project, including Horace Cardon and John Pillheotte in Lyon; Lazare Zetzner and his heirs in Cologne; and Andrew Baba in Venice, who, together with John Albini, produced unconventional editions in Mainz.…”

André do Avelar and the Teaching of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera at the University of Coimbra

“…From 1592 to 1606, they published the eight volumes of the famous Cursus Conimbricensis, containing the best commentaries on Aristotle produced at that time. These underwent several editions and were used throughout Europe (Casalini 2017).…”

“…Sometimes those references appeared inside the text, but there was an increasing use of marginal notes, the antecedent of our footnotes. One may find a profuse employment of this kind of resource in the Comentarii Conimbricensis, the commentaries about Aristotle's works produced by the Jesuit teachers of Coimbra (Casalini 2017).…”