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«Perché ricordare, se non per un tal quale esame di coscienza e per non disperdere dei valori?»: così Massimo Ermini, indimenticabile mentore, ricordando suo padre Giuseppe il 16 dicembre 1991. Nell'esperienza quotidiana, di cui l'autore propone alcuni semplici episodi dai molteplici livelli di lettura, di "Egregio Signore" si ha l'occasione di rivivere dei valori, condividendoli e declinandoli, anche nell'intimità delle nostre relazioni famig...

... Era dilatato dovunque e al tempo stesso il concentrato di un nucleo senza confini, senza inizio e senza fine e la parte centrale era il Sé autentico che non nasce mai e non muore mai. Nel rendersene conto, provò un moto di compassione per ogni cosa scritta nella vita e, per riscontro, gli arrivò l'energia di un amore del quale sentiva l'eco scandirgli i battiti del respiro, ormai armonizzato con la totalità di cui faceva parte, provocandog...

A richly textured, deeply learned, and broadly inclusive study of Petrarch's writing, his historical situation, and his contribution to our own cultural formation."--William Kennedy, Cornell University

A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. This title brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his unendingly works.

Raises the radical question of how Dante's understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.

At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in dep...

Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre and calls for the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences.

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books wh...

In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with poetry and elevated the Divine Comedy to a central position in shaping all other forms of discursive knowledge. To trace the circle of Dante's intellectual concerns, Mazzotta examines the structure and aims of medieval encyclopedias, especially in the...

For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here Giuseppe Mazzotta, one of the leading Italianists in the United States, shows how much Vico, properly read, can bring to an understanding of contemporary social problems. To explore Vico's body of thought in all its monumental complexity, Mazzotta h...

Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre and calls for the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences.