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Making Figures: A Way Of Philosophizing in the De Sapiente

The De Sapiente is placed sixth in the collection of philosophical treatises, letters and geometrical works that Bovelles published in February 1511 with the famous Henri Estienne. This volume contains Bovelles’ most decisive philosophical treatises: De Intellectu, De Sensu, which form an inaugural diptych, then De Nichilo, Ars Oppositorum, De Generatione. Oddly enough, this volume has never been reprinted, unlike the many pedagogical manuals published by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, who was then reforming the education given at the Faculty of Arts. Some of Bovelles’ opuscules are now very rare, but the 1511 volume is not, and this fact partially explains the major part it played when Bovelles was rediscovered, first in the nineteenth century and then especially in the twentieth century. Within this volume, the De Sapiente, without a doubt, has attracted the most attention from academics interested in Bovelles; these include philosophers, theologians, historians of ideas, professors of literature – in the tradition of Cassirer’s famous study, Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance. This 1511 collection is well stocked from an iconographic point of view. This is no surprise, as diagrams, geometrical figures and iconographic patterns are common features of Bovelles’ intellectual production – from his early contribution to Lefèvre’s manuals, from 1500–1503, to his philosophical dialogues on the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the flesh, printed in 1551–1552. But both the number and the quality of figures in the 1511 volume are