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Medieval Optics and Theories of Light in the Works of Dante
This study investigates Dante's knowledge of several traditions of the extensive medieval literature on light and optics and examines how he assimilates and reworks related imagery, themes, and motifs in his writing.
Reading Dante in Renaissance Italy
Examines Dante's reception in the culture and criticism of Renaissance Italy, with a particular focus on Florence and Venice.
Dante and Renaissance Florence
Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal 'Florentine' readers, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Cristoforo Landino, and explains how and why both supporters and opponents of Dante exploited his legacy for a variety of ideological, linguistic, cultural and political purposes. The book focuses on a variety of texts, both Latin and vernacular, in which reference was made to Dante, from commentaries to poetry, from literary lives to letters, from histories to dialogues. Gilson pays particular attention to Dante's influence on major authors such as Boccaccio and Petrarch, on Italian humanism, and on civic identity and popular culture in Florence. Ranging across literature, philosophy and art, across languages and across social groups, this study fully illuminates for the first time Dante's central place in Italian Renaissance culture and thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Dante's ‘Commedia'
Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.
Dante and the Human Body
The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars, and theologians. They are: 'The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body in the Commedia' by Simon A. Gilson (University of Warwick); 'Dante, Medicine and the Invisible Body' by Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre, University of London); 'The Scientific Context of Dante's Embryology' by Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa); 'Sanatio and Salvatio: 'Body' and Soul in the Experience of Dante's Afterlife' by Simone De Angelis (University of Berne); 'Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in the Commedia' by Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford); 'Divina anatomia: Laying Bare Body and Soul in the Commedia' by Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (formerly of the University of Cambridge); ''La rosa in che il verbo divino carne si fece': Human Bodies and Truth in the Poetic Narrative of the Commedia' by Vittorio Montemaggi (Churchill College, Cambridge); and 'World and Body: A Study in Dante's Cosmological Hermeneutics' by Oliver Davies (King's College, London).
Dante's New Life of the Book
Dante's New Life of the Book examines Dante's Vita nuova through its transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations. Eisner investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements.
Out of the Mouths of Babes
A wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events, including What is a person? Is speech fundamental to our humanity? And what does it mean, or what does it matter, to speak truth to power? Singer contends that descriptions of baby talk in medieval French literature are far from trivial. Through treatises, manuals, poetry, and devotional texts, Singer charts how writers imagined infants to speak with an authority untainted by human experience. What their children say, then, offers unique insight into medieval hopes for universal answers to life’s deepest wonderings.
Reading Dante's Stars
Astronomy is one of the most prominent and perplexing features of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the final rhyme of the poem's three parts, and in scores of descriptions and analogies, the stars are an intermediate goal and a constant point of reference for the spiritual journey the poem narrates. This book makes a sustained analysis of Dante's use of astronomy, not only in terms of the precepts of medieval science but also in relation to specific moral, philosophical, and poetic problems laid out in each chapter.For Dante, Alison Cornish says, the stars offer optical representations of invisible realities, from divine providence to the workings of the human soul. Dante's often puzzling celestial...
A Boccaccian Renaissance
A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio’s impact on early modern literature and culture in Italy and Europe. Martin Eisner and David Lummus co-edit the first comprehensive examination in English of Boccaccio’s impact on the Renaissance. The essays investigate what it means to follow a Boccaccian model, in tandem with or in place of ancient authors such as Vergil or Cicero, or modern poets such as Dante or Petrarch. The book probes how deeply the Latin and vernacular works of Boccaccio spoke to the Renaissance humanists of the fifteenth century....
