James of Venice was a
Catholic cleric
The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned ("ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers only ...
and significant translator of
Aristotle of the twelfth century. He has been called "the first systematic translator of Aristotle since
Boethius." Not much is otherwise known about him.
He was active in particular in
Constantinople; he translated the ''
Posterior Analytics
The ''Posterior Analytics'' ( grc-gre, Ἀναλυτικὰ Ὕστερα; la, Analytica Posteriora) is a text from Aristotle's ''Organon'' that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. The demonstration is distinguished ...
'' from
Greek to
Latin in the period 1125–1150. This made available in Western Europe for the first time in half a millennium what was then called the
New Logic, in other words the full ''
Organon''. He also translated
''Physics'', ''
On the Soul'', and ''
Metaphysics'' (the oldest known Latin translation of the work).
The Logic Museum
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See also
* Latin translations of the 12th century
* ''Logica nova
In the history of logic, the term ''logica nova'' (Latin, meaning "new logic") refers to a subdivision of the logical tradition of Western Europe, as it existed around the middle of the twelfth century. The ''Logica vetus'' ("old logic") referred ...
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Notes
References
* L. Minio-Paluello, "Iacobus Veneticus Grecus: Canonist and Translator of Aristotle." ''Traditio'' 8 (1952), 265–304
* Sten Ebbesen (1977). "Jacobus Veneticus on the Posterior Analytics and Some Early Thirteenth-century Oxford Masters on the Elenchi." ''Cahiers de l'Institut du moyen âge grec et Latin'' 2, 1-9.
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