Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal

ISBN-13: 9780367210717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Gregory B. Stone

Opis

This book features a radically unprecedented interpretation of Donna me prega, starkly opposed to all previous accounts: far from treating love as a threat to reason that would best be eliminated, the canzone praises loving as the essential operation of rational human flourishing.

O autorze

Gregory B. Stone is Joseph S. Yenni Memorial Professor of Italian Studies and professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. His previous books on Italian literature are Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics.