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grbs-761	Beullens, Pieter; Gotthelf, Allan	Theodore Gaza’s Translation of Aristotle’s De Animalibus: Content, Influence, and Date	2007	45	.pdf	application/pdf	18620	875	62	Microsoft Word - Gaza.doc Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 47 (2007) 469–513 © 2007 GRBS Theodore Gaza’s Translation of Aristotle’s De Animalibus: Content, Influence, and Date Pieter Beullens and Allan Gotthelf ECENT YEARS have seen important studies of Gaza’s translation of the compilation of Aristotle’s biological treatises Historia Animalium, De Partibus Animalium, and De Generatione Animalium, known under the name of De Animalibus.1 However, it adds a dedicatory letter to Matthäus Lang, a councillor of Emperor Maximilian,84 and a long quota- tion from the preface by Ermolao Barbaro to his translation of Themistius’ paraphrasis of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, written in 1480 and dedicated to none other than Sixtus IV, in which he includes an elaborate appraisal of Gaza’s translating abil- ities: Not long ago, Your Holiness, we suffered a great and incom- parable loss in the person of Theodore Gaza.	cache/grbs-761.pdf	txt/grbs-761.txt