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 Two books by Silvia Fazzo on Aristotle, Metaphysics LambdaRecently published:  IL LIBRO LAMBDA DELLA METAFISICA DI ARISTOTELE308 pp. (a Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes on the Text's Constitution)We are also pleased to advertise the second volume as in print:COMMENTO AL LIBRO LAMBDA DELLA METAFISICA DI ARISTOTELE(a Commentary with Introduction and Notes)within the series:“ELENCHOS”diretta da Enrico BERTIdell’Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ItalyVolumes LXI-1 and LXI-2Abstracts:IL LIBRO LAMBDA DELLA METAFISICA DI ARISTOTELEvol. LXI-1, 2012The editorial history of Aristotle’s Metaphysics has experienced a long period of impasse. Over fifty years, no further alternativewas available to the general edition of Werner Jaeger, whose criteria appear now superseded or objectionable in no smallmeasure. The book reconstructs and explains criteria and principles followed in the XIXth and XXth century printed editionsof the Metaphysics. Then, it justifies and explains the first stemmatically based edition of the book Lambda (firstly published asa PhD Thesis in 2009), crucially revised in comparison to both standard XXth century editions (Ross1923, Jaeger 1957). The base is a careful selection of original manuscripts, examined directly and in full, selected according ourrevised version of the Metaphysics’ stemma codicum (Harlfinger 1979 with Fazzo 2010). The final section “Notes on the text’sconstitution” explores this edition’s textual choices and their semantic and linguistic implications both for the content of thebook and for a closer consideration of Aristotle’s usus scribendi et cogitandi in the Metaphysics.Table of Contents can be viewed on a devoted page at the publisher’s website:www.bibliopolis.it/Sommario%20Il%20libro%20Lambda-1.pdfCOMMENTO AL LIBRO LAMBDA DELLA METAFISICA DI ARISTOTELEvol. LXI-2, 2013 (in print)Metaphysics Lambda can be regarded as the most complete and comprehensive outline of Aristotelian theory of principles.But his understanding is controversial. An overwhelming tradition of exegesis makes us familiarwith a certain reading of the book’s content, seen as the expression of Aristotle’s “Theology”, while leaving partly unexplored other relevant aspects of the book: harshness and difficulties of the path, original concerns and underlying issues.The present commentary closely adheres to the precise wording of the text, freshly edited in the previous volume (LXI-1). As a result, we are in a better condition to appreciate in Lambda some of its prominent qualities: on one side, unity and internalcoherence, behind and in spite of its very concise and summarized style; on the other, consistency and continuity with thosebooks which we now call “the Metaphysics” (as well as with Aristotle’s Physics 8): indeed, Lambda can still be regarded as apart of the same overall scientific project, even if in different way than it used to be; this part of the project will thussuccessfully compete with other contemporary theories of principles from within Plato’s school, where non sensiblesubstances are claimed to be principle of sensible ones.Table of Contents can be viewed on a devoted page at the publisher’s website:www.bibliopolis.it/Sommario%20SF%20Commento%20a%20Lambda-2.pdfThe two volumes can be ordered at special conditions at the publisher’s website:www.bibliopolis.it/fazzo.html