Studies in documentary.

Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton University Press 1995, cm.15,5x23, pp.XXIV,344, paperback. Collection Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the author's ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastos's essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the author's power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.

London, Paris, Toronto, J.M.Dent & Son 1916, cm.13x19,5, pp.224, legatura editoriale in tutta tela.

London, Collins 1947, cm.14,5x22, pp.224 ill.bn. legtaura editoriale cartonata, sorpacoperta. Second impression.

New York, Schocken Books 1969, cm.17x24, pp.XXVIII,320, brossura copertina figurata. This study of the life and work of the dynamic painter who shocked Rome and revolutionized its academic schools has come to be considered a standard work on Caravaggio. "A volume that brings us closer to the essence of Caravaggio's art than any previous book ... By means of historical analysis, it establishes in what aspects of his style the essential originality of Caravaggio is to be sought, and from what sources it derived its force. The painter discected in these pages may be a trifle less sensational than the figure to which phrase-makers have introduced us, but he emerges as a greater, more purposeful and more intelligible artist." -- The Times Literary Supplement