ABSTRACT
In an inventory which was compiled at the request of Cosimo de’ Medici, Tommaso Parentucelli-who later became the humanistically inclined Pope Nicholas V-listed the Greek commentaries on Aristotle which were current about the middle of the fifteenth century. His inventory deserves to be cited at length:
Of the Greeks who wrote commentaries on Aristotle, we have only the following in Latin:
Themistius wrote on the Posterior Analytics, and also on De anima; Johannes Grammaticus [i.e. Philoponus] on the third book of
De anima; Simplicius on the Categories, and also on De caelo; Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Meteorology; Ammonius on De interpretatione; Eustratius [of Nicaea] on the Ethics.1
