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  • The Urbino court's interest in this work of Petrarch's is pronounced: three copies of De remedio utriusque Fortunae were present in the ducal library: I.V. #58 (bound with Lactantius's Firmiami, Augustine's City of God, Boethius's De consolatione, and Salomonis's Moralium), 556 and CXLIX. 53.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Boethius's gesture might be interpreted as arithmetic counting; however, since his presence points also to the discipline of music, the gesture might allude to the mnemonic finger notation devised by Guido d'Arezzo (ca. 990 – 1050) for solmization. back

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Boethius's subdivisions had one major failure: they did not seem to accommodate the different uses of the word ˜being™

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • As a result, many authors used a new threefold division which included Boethius's last two subdivisions and one more.

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • The first of Boethius's four subdivisions was similitude, used of the case of the noun ˜animal™ said of both real human beings and pictured human beings.

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • First, he gave a new account of its subdivisions by adding Boethius's subdivision, similitude, to the first threefold division involving attribution to one efficient cause, one end, and one subject.

    Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009

  • Thus, Gilbert of Poitiers (d. 1154), in a discussion of Boethius's De hebdomadibus, suggests that creaturely goodness is a relation, indeed, just the relation of being created by God.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • The root of the question is Aristotle's discussion of singular future statements in De interpretatione 9 which the eleventh-century dialecticians read in Boethius's Latin translation.

    Peter Damian Holopainen, Toivo J. 2008

  • First, Boethius's commentaries are highly indebted to Neoplatonic sources.

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • The influence of this form goes beyond 12th-century attempts to compose axiomatic philosophical/theological works in the tradition of Boethius's De Hebdomadibus (like Alan's Regulae Caelestis Iuris and Nicholas of Amiens's Ars Catholicae Fidei).

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

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