Dante and the Sciences of the Human

Medicine, Physics, and the Soul
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-69252-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieri’s contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times. The chapters address how Dante shaped an understanding of the human body and mind, his relationship with medical and scientific thought in his literary and philosophical production, and his legacy which continued into the following centuries. Each chapter questions Dante’s contribution to these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, thus putting medieval literatures in conversation with the history of medicine and science, politics, theology, and philosophy. Covering questions on the body, soul, matter, politics, and physics, this valuable book presents an overview of Dante’s relationship with medical thought and the medieval sciences.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pace, Matteo

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Dante’s Sciences of the Human: An Introduction; Matteo Pace.- 2. When the Ocean Towered Above the Earth: Dante’s in Context; Ivano Dal Prete.- 3. Passion and Passionless Love in Dante: From 3 to the ; Joseph Romano.- 4. Anatomy of Florence: Illness and Body Politics in the ; Andrea Celli.- 5. Neither O nor I: The Handiwork of 24 and 25; Arielle Saiber.- 6. Disabled Bodies and Female Souls: From Dante to Marinella; Catherine Bloomer.- 7. Speaking Like a Philosopher: Dante and Renaissance Treatises on Love;Eva Del Soldato. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Matteo Pace is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Connecticut College, in the USA. Upon earning a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2019, he won a Santorio Award for Excellence in Research from the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, where he is also an Associate Fellow. In his research, he focuses on the intersections between vernacular cultures and medical thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Besides Dante, he has published on Boccaccio’s ; Guido Cavalcanti and Dino del Garbo; Giacomo da Lentini and the Aristotelian tradition; Guido Guinizzelli, Avicenna, and Taddeo Alderotti’s medical philosophy; and Catherine of Siena’s theology of blood.