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Williams, Steven J., The Secret of Secrets: The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2003, 484 pp.

Resum
Estudi de l'arribada del Secretum secretorum a l'Occident llatí. Defensa la cort imperial de Frederic II com a principal via d'entrada, contra hipòtesis anteriors que apuntaven vers la cort papal (Paravicini).

Contents:
* Introduction 1
* 1. The Contents and the Formation of the Secret of Secrets 7
* 2. John of Seville and the Introduction of the Secret of Secrets to the West 31
* 3. Philip of Tripoli and the Complete Translation of the Secret of Secrets 60
* 4. From the Holy Land to Europe: The First Stage of Circulation 109
* 5. Textual History and the Myth of an Official Expurgation 142
* 6. The Scholarly Reception of the Secret of Secrets, Part 1: Success 183
* 7. The Scholarly Reception of the Secret of Secrets, Part 2: The Limits of Success 298
* Conclusion 344
* Appendixes
1. John of Seville's Prologue to the Epistola 353
2. Philip of Tripoli's Prologue to the Secret of Secrets 359
3. Manuscripts of the Secret of Secrets to circa 1325 367
4. Commentaries 419
5. Early Printings of the Latin Secret of Secrets 427
Matèries
Filosofia - Filosofia moral
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Medicina
Enciclopedisme
Notes
Descripció de l'editor .
Recensions:
* Ilaria Zamuner, a Studi Medievali, 47(2) (2006), 722-733.
URL
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What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).