Virtual Library of Commentaries on Aristotle

Aristóteles retratado por Berruguete

Go to the index record for Commentaries on Aristotle's Politics

The Ignacio Larramendi Foundation took a major step forward and broke new ground in the creation of virtual libraries by bringing together a digital collection of a broad cross-section of Aristotelian Studies. Works dealing with one particular author, Aristotle, and with some of the essential writings in the Western Canon, Politics, Rhetoric, and Nicomachean Ethics, have been compiled thanks to a precise set of metadata and an information structure specially designed for this purpose.

The first step was publication of Comentarios a la Política de Aristóteles en la Europa Medieval y Moderna (siglos XIII al XVII) [Commentaries on Aristotle's Politics in Medieval and Modern Europe (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries)] with a Prologue by Lourdes Martínez Gutiérrez, widow of Hernando de Larramendi and President of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, on 9 October 2008. The book was presented on 14 December 2008.

As Xavier Agenjo, Project Director of the Ignacio Larramendi Foundation, had announced in the Epilogue to that volume, following a change in the methodology used to compile works by writers of commentaries on Aristotle, and after the customary one-year waiting period, the compilation was published on the corresponding web page from the two DVDs that had been bundled with the book.

Corrected and enlarged edition

Of course, the occasion was used to carry out another review of the bibliographic descriptions as well as the attributions of the books making up the collection on the basis of comments made by readers of the volume and published reviews, particularly the review published in the online journal Catoblepas by Professor Gustavo Bueno Sánchez, who is both an eminent historian of the History of Philosophy and an expert in telecommunications and information technology.

This new digital edition includes not only writers of commentaries on Aristotle's Politics but also the initial stages of the future collections of writers of commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric.

This digital edition naturally includes the Introduction written for the purpose by Professor Salvador Rus Rufina of the University of León and Director of the Institute of Humanism and the Classical Tradition.