THOMAS D'AQUIN (Saint). De veritate catholicæ... - Lot 37 - Ader

THOMAS D'AQUIN (Saint). De veritate catholicæ fidei contra errores gentiles. Venice: Franz Renner, Nicholas of Frankfurt, [1476]. - In-4 et petit in-folio, 229 x 160 : (285 ff. of 286, mq the last blank); car. goth., two col. of 42 lines. Taupe sow skin, cold fillet on the edge of the dishes, spine ribbed, red slices (20th century binding). Hain, *1386. - Goff, T-192. - BMC, V, p. 193. - Pellechet, 987, Third edition incunabulum, the first Venetian, of the Summa contra gentile, or Book on the Truth of the Catholic Faith against the Errors of the Unbelievers, by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225?-1274 ). A master in theology, Thomas Aquinas was highly conscious of his vocation as a doctor, in the service of truth. He was aware of the intellectual revolution that had been taking place in the West since the beginning of the century, under the influence of pagan philosophy and in particular of Aristotelianism. He elaborated an authentic philosophy for the needs of the Christianity of his time and to rethink all the theological problems. In this Thomas Aquinas' philosophy was a new philosophy, an original synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism which must be seen as the first philosophy worthy of the name that Christian civilization produced. He wrote several treatises on this subject, including this one, which he composed during his first stay in Paris in the 1250s to fight the adversaries of the beggars. This is the author's second theological treatise, following his Commentary on Sentences, and constitutes a broad Christian synthesis of Aristotelian philosophical thought. It is divided into two main parts, the first consisting of three books and the second of one book, in which the philosopher sets out to refute the errors of the pagan philosophers of antiquity and of non-Christian religions. The editio princeps edition of this text appeared in Strasbourg in the early years of 1470, before 1474. This is the t