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Science and literature in Italian culture from Dante to Calvino : a Festschrift for Patrick Boyde / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon A. Gilson.
Van Pelt Library PQ4053.S23 S35 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian literature--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- Science in literature.
- Literature and science--Italy--History.
- Literature and science.
- Science--Italy--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 303 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Legenda/European Humanities Research Centre, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 'A Vocation for Knowledge': Literature, Philosophy, Science and the Italian Canon / Pierpaolo Antonello 1
- Part I. Dante and the Early Italian Tradition 13
- 1 'Per similitudine di abito scientifico': Dante, Cavalcanti and the Sources of Medieval 'Philosophical' Poetry / Zygmunt G. Baranski 14
- 2 The Vulgarization of Science: Dante's Meteorology in Context / Alison Cornish 53
- 3 Notes on the Presence of Albert the Great in Benvenuto da Imola's Comentum supra Dantis Aldigherij Comoediam / Simon A. Gilson 72
- Part II. Literature as Philosophy of Nature: The Renaissance and Baroque 93
- 4 Literature and Science in Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria / Martin McLaughlin 94
- 5 Fracastoro on Syphilis: Science and Poetry in Theory and Practice / Spencer Pearce 115
- 6 The Lunar Renaissance: Images of the Moon in Ludovico Ariosto and Giordano Bruno / Simonetta Bassi 136
- Part III. Critiques and Crossings: From Enlightenment to Positivism 155
- 7 'Ni trop seche, ni trop badine': The Difficult Osmosis between Literature and Science in the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment / Andrea Battistini 156
- 8 The Natural Sciences in Leopardi's Early Writings / Gaspare Polizzi 178
- 9 'The other in me': Aspects of Darwinism in Italian Literature / Vittorio Roda 204
- Part IV. Technophilia and Chaotic Worlds: Twentieth-Century Italian Writing 225
- 10 Rayon/Marinetti / Jeffrey T. Schnapp 226
- 11 Networks and Knots: The Discrete and the Continuous in Literature. Italo Calvino and Carlo Emilio Gadda / Mario Porro 254
- 12 'Io amo New York': Calvino's Creatively Chaotic City / Guy P. Raffa 276.
- ISBN:
- 190075584X
- OCLC:
- 57670732
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