Aristotelismo cinquecentesco e ‘communication savante’: Gianvincenzo Pinelli e Federico Bonaventura (con tre lettere inedite)

Federico Bonaventura was the most authoritative philosopher of the Duchy of Urbino at the time of Francesco Maria II della Rovere. His treatise Della ragion di Stato et della prudenza politica is well known, but much less so is the rest of his work and even less so his extensive intellectual relations. This article shows the cultural significance of his friendship with Gianvincenzo Pinelli and several other important intellectuals who made up the entourage of the Neapolitan savant. Three unpublished letters from Pinelli to Bonaventura are published in the appendix to this article.