Guido Cavalcanti: The Other Middle Ages

Maria Luisa Ardizzone

Published by University of Toronto Press 2002

Guido Cavalcanti

The Other Middle Ages

Maria Luisa Ardizzone

In the series Toronto Italian Studies

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675568

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While other scholars have noted Cavalcanti's Averroism, Ardizzone is the first to analyse it in light of sciences such as optics or logic, focusing on new issues of intellectual debate of Cavalcanti's time, as, for instance, the medieval theory of matter.

Author / Editor information

Ardizzone Maria Luisa :

Maria Luisa Ardizzone is a professor in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University.

Reviews

Otto A. Bird, Professor Emeritus of the Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame:

'Ardizzone has made a profound contribution to our understanding of medieval thought and poetry. She has written a book of great interest to any medievalist.'

Giuseppe Mazzotta, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University:

'Ardizzone has made a profound contribution to our understanding of medieval thought and poetry. She has written a book of great interest to any medievalist.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Note On Editions Of Guido Cavalcanti's Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Love As A Metaphor: The Discourse And The Method Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Vision And Logic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Love As Passion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Pleasure And Intellectual Happiness: Guido Cavalcanti And Giacomo Da Pistoia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Cavalcanti at the Centre of the Western Canon: Ezra Pound as Reader of Donna me prega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Appendix A. Donna me prega: The Italian Text and an English Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Appendix B. The Letters of Ezra Pound and Etienne Gilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272

eBook

Published: June 3, 2002
ISBN: 9781442675568