Dante and the human body : eight essays / edited by John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, John C.

Petrie, Jennifer

University College, Dublin. Foundation for Italian Studies.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Publications of the Foundation for Italian Studies, University College Dublin

Publications of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Themes, motives.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Human body in literature.

Human Body.

Medicine in Literature.

Literature, Medieval.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Medical Subjects:

Human Body.

Medicine in Literature.

Literature, Medieval.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, [2007]

Contents:

The anatomy and physiology of the human body in the Commedia / Simon A. Gilson

Dante, medicine and the invisible body / Vivian Nutton

The scientific context of Dante's embryology / Joseph Ziegler

Sanatio and Salvatio: "body" and soul in the experience of Dante's Afterlife / Simone de Angelis

Nostalgia in heaven: embraces, affection and identity in the Commedia / Manuele Gragnolati

Divina anatomia: laying bare body and soul in the Commedia / Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell

"La rosa in che il verbo divino carne di fece" : human bodies and truth in the poetic narrative of the Commedia / Vittorio Montemaggi

World and body: a study in Dante's cosmological hermeneutics / Oliver Davies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781846820908

1846820901

OCLC:

178196139