  The ancient habit of sorting philosophers into schools or groups seems first to have been applied to Aristotelian philosophers by Francisco  Patrizi [Franciscus Patritius][27]  in his Discussiones peripateticæ. It is an approach, that is useful to give order to a text that treats a great number of Renaissance  Aristotelians.[28]    But in a text not trying to give at least superficial doxographical information concerning the single philosophers and their works, it might (correctly) be interpreted as a pretext not to study these philosophers and their  works.[29]   And the charming character of Renaissance “Aristotelian” texts is more situated in their (considerable) diversities than in their (limited) similarities.