Il Socrate Veneziano: Trifon Gabriele. Tre scritti filosofici

The paper explores Trifon Gabriele’s philosophical works : (1) Espositione sopra li versi del vi. di Virgilio. Principio caelum, ac terras ; (2) Del flusso, et reflusso del mare ; (3) La spheretta. All these writings focus on meteorology and their analysis shows the complex intellectual figure of Gabriele and his multiplicity of interests. Gabriele develops a form of eclectic philosophy that can not be understood or within Platonism nor within Aristotelianism. His eclectic perspective was peculiar of the cultural milieus outside the university, as the academies, which were more open to the contamination of various philosophical traditions.