Restoro d'Arezzo

Restoro d'Arezzo

Ristoro or Restoro d'Arezzo was an Italian monk of the thirteenth century, author of the "Composizione del Mondo" [Called a ‘vernacular astronomy primer’. [http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/heliotropia/01-01/martinez.shtml] ] of c. 1282.

This is the first astronomical work to be written in Italian (Tuscan). [In fact the first scientific work in Italian; see the external link. Also it is the first Italian prose work.] It contains also, as its title (The Composition of the World) suggests, geological theories: these covered the internal structure of a spherical shell Earth, fossils, and erosion, amongst others.

It has been claimed that Dante was familiar with Ristoro’s work. [http://www.bookrags.com/research/dante-alighieri-scit-021234/] . Dante in the "Quaestio de Aqua et Terra" dated to 1320 did consider related matters. [There has been some past scholarly controversy over whether this work really is by Dante.]

References

* Alberto Morino (editor) (Lavis, La Finestra editrice 2006), "La composizione del mondo", Restoro d'Arezzo

Notes

External links

*it icon [http://www.lincei.it/pubblicazioni/rendicontiFMN/rol/pdf/S1999-03-01.pdf PDF on the mineralogy of the "Compositione"] with English summary [http://lincei-celebrazioni.it/pubblicazioni/rendicontiFMN/rol/visabs.php?lang=en&type=fis&fileId=84 here as HTML]


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