ABSTRACT
The Coimbran commentary on the Physics appeared in 1592, bound in a volume with other books on natural philosophy, as the first of series. Since neither the traditional didactic order, nor the structure of the Aristotelian corpus considered physics as the first discipline to be taught, this fact is evidence of the vitality and complexity of this work, which has appeared another boring and monochrome product of late Scholasticism so far. Contrary to this caricature, the Cursus has a very lively history: it became the battlefield where professors wrestled in order to become team leader; it was then composed in a hurry, after the dramatic delay of its first author, running after the didactical problems of the college; and, finally, some volumes were added and published when a plagiarized version of the Cursus began to circulate in Germany.
