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Dante’s Inferno
This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest yearnings: to guide human well-being; to elevate social and political communities; to remedy the poisons spewed by the seven capital vices; and to celebrate the connections between human self-interest, virtuous living, and spiritual salvation. By closely examining and analyzing five of Dante’s more vivid characters in hell—Piero della Vigna, Brunetto Latini, Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, and Guido da Montefeltro—and extracting the moral lessons Dante intends them to convey, and by conceptually analyzing envy, arrogance, pride, and human flourishing, the author challenges readers to interrogate and refine their modes of living.
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics.
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts ...
VIE Festival 14 - 22 october 2017
VIE Festival inaugurated in 2005 as an attempt to experience contemporary times, discover new identities and individuals in the world of live performance. It is an annual event held in the month of October in some cities of Emilia Romagna Region. Organizer and founder is ERT Fondazione Teatro Nazionale based in Modena with the financial support of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena. The project issued from the successful experience of Le vie dei festival which, during the decade 1994/2004, has welcomed in Modena from the mid October to the mid December, some of the most interesting protagonists of Italian and international summer festivals. Among them, Carmelo Bene, Thierry Salmon, Lev ...
Legal Plunder
As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency. Pawnbrokers kept goods in circulation, and sergeants of the law marched into debtors’ homes to seize belongings equal in value to debts owed. David Smail describes a material world on the cusp of modern capitalism.
O diabo e suas máscaras
Em O Diabo e suas máscaras, Andréa, psicanalista dedicada, é acompanhada por sua sólida formação teórica nos textos de Freud e Lacan e por sua prática clínica ao escrever cada palavra dessa obra. Com ela, contamos com Virgílio, que conduz Dante ao Inferno; para chegar com Orfeu ao Hades, vemos Eurídice virar pó, nos assustamos com a cabeça de camelo de Cazotte só para nos deixar seduzir por Biondetta. Aportamos em Fausto e sua necromancia,a campamos no pátio do castelo dinamarquês para, com a aparição do fantasma do rei morto, seguir com Hamlet os impasses do sujeito frete ao próprio desejo. É Andréa nosso Daímôn enquanto lemos seus parágrafos? Andréa Brunetto inquieta-nos e nos faz seguir, ela se faz voz. É a sua voz, com seu sotaque e suas expressões, que reverbera e faz virar as páginas, avançando pelos capítulos.
Florence in Transition: The decline of the commune
With the waning of the Middle Ages, the life of the Italian polis underwent transformation. The leisurely decentralization of the medieval commune, which had its roots in feudalism, the code of chivalry, and the religious faith, gave place to the tight despotism of the fourteenth century. This in turn yielded democratized government and finally to a stricter legalistic and puritanical rule. Marvin Becker's two-volume study of Florence examines this metamorphosis and establishes its relationship to the emergence of the Renaissance state. -- Book jacket.
Florence in Transition
Originally published in 1967. With the waning of the Middle Ages, the life of the Italian polis underwent a gradual but unmistakable transformation. The leisurely decentralization of the medieval commune, which had its roots in feudalism, the code of chivalry, and religious faith, gave place to the tight despotism of the fourteenth century. This in turn yielded to democratized government and finally to a stricter legalistic and puritanical rule. Marvin Becker's two-volume study of Florence examines this metamorphosis and establishes its relationship to the emergence of the Renaissance state. Volume One traces the decline of the communal paideia in its political, social, and cultural aspects....
