Grice e Boezio

 A word needs to be said here about Boethius (c 480-524), who undertook the ambitious project of translating the entirety of Plato's and Aristotle's works into Latin and elucidating them by means of commen-caries. This project became necessary once educated Romans (such as even the great Augustine) no longer knew Greek, thus being cut off from the Greek literary and intellectual tradition. Unfortunately, Boe-thius, who worked in the service of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric, was accused of treason and subsequently executed. This tragic accident of history cut his project short, so that he completed translations of only two of Aristotle's logical writings, the Categories and On Interpretation, together with a Latin version of Porphyry's introduction, the Isagoge.