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OverviewGuido Cavalcanti, Dante’s intellectual mentor, is widely considered among the greatest Italian lyric poets; his famous and notoriously difficult philosophical canzone Donna me prega is often characterized as the most studied lyric poem in Italian literature. This book situates Cavalcanti’s poetry in the context of the Arabic Aristotelian rationalism that entered the Latin West in the 12th century—a tradition marked by questions concerning whether humans can ever transcend their animality. Cavalcanti’s poetry is a focal point where one can view, circa 1300 AD, Arabo-Islamic philosophy in the process of being assimilated and naturalized in Western Europe, eventually leading to values (associated with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment) that we now call modern and secular—in particular, to a notion of human reason as bound up with imagination and with ethical praxis rather than as a means for the attainment of knowledge concerning God and the cosmos. The 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. This study of Cavalcanti serves as a prelude to the formulation of a new paradigm for understanding Dante’s Comedy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory B. StonePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.521kg ISBN: 9780367210717ISBN 10: 0367210711 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 11 March 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 EntryReviewsAuthor InformationGregory 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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