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Beautiful Bologna
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Dante
«Un libro di Ezra Pound su Dante - si legge nell’introduzione al volume - è uno scrigno di idee e di punti di vista sulla poesia. [...] Pound ci stupisce, perché sembra aver pensato prima di noi quel che noi ora pensiamo su Dante: e invece quel che oggi noi pensiamo nasce spesso dalle sue idee e scorre fino a noi lungo rivoli carsici, in un’attività di scrittura fitta e dispersiva, che questo libro contribuisce, infine, a rendere unitaria». Dante è la grande «scoperta» del Novecento. A capirlo, ripensarlo, perfino riscriverlo, furono anzitutto i grandi poeti: Pound, Eliot, Mandel’štam, Borges. In questo libro torniamo ad ascoltare la voce autentica del primo fra tutti e di tutti maestro, Ezra Pound, che Eliot definì, con formula dantesca, «il miglior fabbro». Originariamente preparato da Vanni Scheiwiller per festeggiare gli ottant’anni del poeta, il libro era rimasto sempre solo un «sogno editoriale». Oggi, riscattato da mezzo secolo di silenzio, prende vita, offrendo intatta la meraviglia di un pensiero critico e poetico decisivo.
En el laberinto
En los ensayos aquí reunidos, inéditos en España, Karl Kerényi ilustra los múltiples aspectos (simbólicos, iconográficos, literarios, míticos, rituales) a través de los cuales toma cuerpo ;ya sea en las culturas prehistóricas como en las culturas antigua, medieval y moderna; la forma originaria del laberinto, signo enigmático que ha fascinado y obsesionado tanto al pensamiento religioso como al filosófico, psicológico y artístico de cada época. Para Kerényi, la imagen del laberinto ha de ser buscada en una danza ritual y memorial, en un viaje de iniciación a los infiernos donde hay que aprender el camino de regreso y la emergencia a la luz. El dédalo de recorridos intrincados con el que el mito griego quiso representar el misterioso teatro de la lucha de Teseo contra el Minotauro, llega a ser así la más extraordinaria y luminosa metáfora de la reflexión y de la búsqueda.
In the Footsteps of the Ancients
This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts
This book explores literary and non-literary texts, along with their early manuscripts and subsequent printed and digital editions, covering a time span extending over 1000 years.
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The Sound Studies Reader
The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as ‘sound studies’ along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture, acoustics and space; media and reproducibility; listening, voices and disability; culture, community, power and difference; and shifts in the form and meaning of sound across cultures, contexts and centuries. Writers reflect on crucial historical moments, difficult definitions, and competing accounts of the role of sound in culture and everyday life. Across the essays, readers will gain a sense of the...
The Face of Immortality
The literature on physiognomy—the art of studying a person's outward appearance, especially the face, in order to determine character and intelligence—has flourished in recent years in the wake of renewed scholarly interest in the history and politics of the body. Virtually no attention, however, has been devoted to the vocabulary and rhetoric of physiognomy. The Face of Immortality addresses this gap, arguing that the trend in Western culture has been to obliterate the face, which is manifested in criticism as a disregard for the letter. Denouncing this trend, Davide Stimilli draws on Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, English, and German sources in order to explore the terminology and hist...
Renaissance Futurities
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.
