Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal

ISBN-13: 9781032173337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 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.

Spis treści

Introduction

Part One: The Intelligence of Love: On the Sweet New Style

Part Two: The Figure of Cavalcanti: Intimations of Heterodoxy

Part Three: The Salvation of Intellect in Arabic Aristotelian Philosophy

Al-Farabi on the Conjunction

Avicenna on the Conjunction

Averroes on the Conjunction

Part Four: Who Could Think Beyond Nature? Allegories of Intellection

Part Five: Long Commentary on Donna me prega

Stanza 1

Stanza 2

Stanza 3

Excursus I: Averroes on the Rationality of Emotion

Excursus II: Recollection, Cogitation, and Time

Excursus III: Mars and Irascible Desire

Stanza 4

Stanza 5

Entry

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.