Abstract
Notes on the recurrent analogy between civitas and organic in the middle ages. The use of body metaphors to describe organicist conceptions of society appears to go back to antiquity. Not few scholars have dealt with particular aspects or writings related to the analogy between a town and animal in the context of the political theory elaborated by medieval thinkers. In the essay, without making an in-depth study, the author mentions other texts in which this metaphor is used, specifically in commentaries on Libri de animalibus by Aristotle - almost solely looking at De motu - taking their cue from the prologue to an anonymous series of questions regarding the De generatione and the De partibus animalium, handed down in ms. AD.XI.18 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. This is entirely centered on the organicistic metaphor.
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