James of Venice
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James of Venice[1] was a significant translator of Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called the first systematic translator of Aristotle since Boethius.[2] Not much is otherwise known about him.[3]
He was active in particular in Constantinople[4]; he translated the Posterior Analytics from Greek to Latin in the period 1125-1150. [5][6] This made available in Western Europe for the first time in half a millennium what was then called the New Logic, in other words the full Organon.
[edit] References
- L. Minio-Paluello, Iacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle. Tradition 8 (1952), 265–304
- Sten Ebbesen (1977). Jacobus Veneticus on the Posterior Analytics and Some Early Thirteenth-century Oxford Masters on the Elenchi. Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen âge grec et latin 2, 1-9.
