Leuven, Leuven University Press 2013 440pp., 25cm., publisher's hardcover in grey cloth, in the series "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre" series I volume 48, text in Italian (with a summary in English), fine condition, [Content: this work provides a philological analysis of the primary sources (Epicur. Ep. Hrdt. 56-59 / Lucret. DRN I 599-634; II 481-499) concerning the theory of minima, an analysis of the likely historical background to this theory (Xenocrates, Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus), and a study of the development of this doctrine within the Garden, based on an examination of the question whether it is legitimate to speak of an 'Epicurean geometry'], F97925