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Dante and the Human Body - 9781846820908

Un libro in lingua di Barnes John (EDT) Petrie Jennifer (EDT) edito da Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, 2007

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Based upon lectures forming part of the annual Dante series held at University College Dublin in 2003 and 2004, these papers range from the panoramic to that which is personal to Dante and his commentary in the Commedia. Offerings include the intellectual underpinnings of the era's understanding of anatomy and physiology, with a focus on the contributions of Albertus Magnus, the texts Dante is likely to have read, particularly that of Galen, Dante's perceptions of embryology and the source of the soul, Dante's choice of the theological over the medical, perhaps because he was not as familiar with the latter, the relationship of gluttony to salvation, and the dissection-like narratives of wounding and flaying, the links between the studies of the human body and of the divine Incarnation, and reconfiguration of both through transcendence, transfiguration, ascension and assumption. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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