Political animals and logosformeln: On Carlo Ginzburg’s the soul of brutes

• MATTIA MANTOVANI ^[1]
  1. [1] KU Leuven

     KU Leuven

     Arrondissement Leuven, Bélgica

     
• Localización: Mediterranea.: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, ISSN-e 2445-2378, Nº. 10, 2025, págs. 379-398
• Idioma: inglés
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  • CARLO GINZBURG, The Soul of Brutes,Seagull Books,Kolkata, India–London–New York 2022.
  • CARLO GINZBURG, «Letture intricate. Machiavelli, Aristotele, san Tommaso»,inID.,Nondimanco. Machiavelli, Pascal,Adelphi, Milano2018,...
  • Quoted by Ginzburg at p. 18 (his emphasis). See p. 11 and 18 for discussion of Aquinas’ Commentaria in octo Politicorum Aristotelis...
  • GINZBURG, Nondimanco.
  • See especially CARLO GINZBURG, Wooden Eyes. Nine Reflections on Distance,Columbia University Press, New York 2001, p. 113. First Italian...
  • POPE FRANCIS, Sublimitas et miseria hominis(Apostolic Letter, 23 June 2023). Available at
  • In La lettera uccide(Adelphi 2021), Ginzburg brings to light the Jesuit background of another, most contentious statement by Pope Francis:...
  • See the above-mentioned Wooden Eyes.
  • PLUTARCH, De sollertia animalium 963B, in Plutarch’s Three Treatises on Animals, ed. and transl. STEPHEN T.NEWMYER,Routledge,London–New York...
  • See PLUTARCH, De sollertia animalium 959A–961B.
  • On the issue, see PHILIP SIDNEY HORKY, «The Spectrum of Animal Rationality in Plutarch», Apeiron,50/1 (2017), p. 103–133.
  • PLUTARCH, De sollertia animalium 960E, p. 22.
  • RICHARD SORABJI, Animal Minds and Human Morals. The Origins of the Western Debate,Cornell University Press,Ithaca 1993.
  • PLUTARCH, De sollertia animalium 960F, p. 22.
  • Ginzburg makes clear that he is «not opposing Plutarch and Aristotle on this subject»(p.53).
  • On Aristotle’s reception around Plutarch’s times, see RICCARDO CHIARADONNA, «Interpretazione filosofica e ricezione del corpus. Il caso...
  • Respectively, Aristotle, Historia animaliumIX.3 (610b20–610b21) and I.1 (488b15–16).
  • PORPHYRY, De abstinentia ab esu carnium3.6.7 in ID., On Abstinence from Killing Animals, transl. GILLIAN CLARK,Bloomsbury,London 2000, p....
  • PIERRE BAYLE, Dictionnaire historique et critique,Brunel et alii,Amsterdam 1740, 5th edition, III 650, «Pereira». Cf. CECILIA MURATORI, Renaissance...
  • See MATTIA MANTOVANI, «Visio per sillogismum. Sensation and Cognition in 13th-Century Theories of Vision», in ELENA BĂLTUȚĂ(ed.), Medieval...
  • ALBERTUS MAGNUS, De animalibus, ed. HERMANNSTADLER, Aschendorffschen, Münster 1916–1920, l.XXI, c. 2, 1328; Albertus Magnus, On Animals....
  • ALBERTUS MAGNUS, De animalibus libri vigintisexnovissime impressi, emendati per M.A. Zimaram,heirs of Ottaviano Scotti,Venice 1513. (I...
  • ALBERTUS MAGNUS, De animalibus, ed. STADLER, XXI, c. 2, 1328–1329; transl. II 1417. Ginzburg does not quote Albert, but he himself remarks...
  • ARISTOTLE, De partibus animalium IV.10, 687a6–8,in Complete Works of Aristotle,The Revised Oxford Translation,ed.JONATHANBARNES, Oxford University...
  • CARLO GINZBURG,Storia notturna:Una decifrazione del sabba,Einaudi,Torino1989, p. 193: «Il mito ,on the origin of humankind, from CeramIsland,...
  • MONTAIGNE, LesEssaisII 12, Apologie de Raymond Sebond, ed.JEANBALSAMO, CATHERINEMAGNIEN-SIMONINand MICHELMAGNIEN, Gallimard, Pléiade, Paris...
  • See ALLAN GOTTHELF, «Darwin on Aristotle», Journal of the History of Biology,32/1 (1999), p.3–30.
  • PRIMO LEVI, The Voice of Memory. Interviews, 1961–1987, ed. MARCO BELPOLITI,DAVID GORDON, Polity,New York 2000, p. 131, emphases added. Quoted...
  • PRIMO LEVI, «A Conversation with Primo Levi (1979)», interview by Giuseppe Grassano inLEVI, The Voice of Memory,p.131–132.
  • PRIMO LEVI, I sommersi e i salvati,Einaudi, Torino 2007 [ed. or. 1986], p. 30, here too with a reference to Manzoni; PRIMO LEVI, The Drowned...
  • I quote from the 1981 Einaudi’s edition of Il re dei Giudei, within Lilit e altri racconti(p. 85; emphasis mine
  • LEVI, I sommersi e i salvati, p. 51, emphasis mine.
  • Compare Il re dei Giudei of 1977 (p. 84) and I sommersi e i salvati (p. 49); emphasis mine.
  • On Ginzburg’s understanding of Primo Levi’s «gray zone»see also VITTORIO FOA,CARLO GINZBURG, Un dialogo,Feltrinelli, Milano 2003, p. 95–114,...
  • LEVI, I sommersi e i salvati, p. 44: «La stessa ‘impotentia judicandi’ci paralizza davanti al caso Rumkowski. La storia di Chaim...
  • See notably Peter Lombard, SententiaeIV, dist. 18 (De remissione sacerdotis), q. 1.
  • PRIMO LEVI, If This Is a Man and The Truce, transl. STUART WOOLF,Abacus,London 2002, p. 93. Quoted by Ginzburg at p. 59. In I sommersi e i...
  • Respectively, p. 94 and 92. Ginzburg emphasizes that these «expectations, fears and hopes are animal reactions which disregard the boundary...