Dantes Visions

Auteur

Cecilia Panti is Professor of History of medieval philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). Her research interests in the fields of philosophy, optics, theory of music, and the quadrivium are featured in numerous academic journals and collective volumes. Her publications include editions of Robert Grosseteste's cosmological treatises (2001) and his De luce (2011); Johannes Tinctoris' Dictionary of Music (2004); a volume on acoustics in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2008); and the special issues of the journals Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies ('Latin and Arabic Theory of Perspective', Volume 29, 2021) and Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval ('Robert Grosseteste and Aristotelianism', Volume 30/1, 2023).

Marco Piccolino has taught general physiology and the history of science at the University of Ferrara (Italy), where he is currently a member of the Centre of Neuroscience. He is a neurophysiologist who has conducted significant research in the physiology of the retina, publishing his results in prestigious international journals, including Nature and Science. He has written several volumes on the history of electrophysiology and sensory physiology, notably The Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology (2011) with Stanley Finger; Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience (2013) with Marco Bresadola; and Galileo's Visions: Piercing the Spheres of the Heavens by Eye and Mind (2013), with Nicholas J. Wade.

Texte du rabat

Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders.

Contenu

Introduction

Cecilia Panti and Marco Piccolino

Chapter 1

Dante and Natural Philosophy

Simon A. Gilson

Chapter 2

Visual Motion Illusions in the Classical Era and in the Middle Ages

Nicholas J. Wade

Chapter 3

Vision as a Tangible and Dynamic Tool in the Divine Comedy. An Overview

Marco Piccolino

Chapter 4

Moving Clouds and Bending Towers: The Illusive Motion of the Garisenda in Inferno XXXI

Marco Piccolino

Chapter 5

Where Do Visions That Do Not Come from Sight Come from?

Mirko Tavoni

Chapter 6

Seeing the Light: Dante and the Perspectivist Theory of Light as Proper Visible

Cecilia Panti

Chapter 7

Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320-1400)

Francesca Galli

Chapter 8

A Medical Commentary on the Signa amoris in the Vita Nuova

Francesco Brigo

Chapter 9

Dante, Healthcare and Diseases

Michele A. Riva and Lorenzo Lorusso

Chapter 10

Dante Neurologist and Neuroanatomist: Evidence from the Divine Comedy

Donatella Lippi, Raffaella Bianucci, Elena Varotto, Francesco Arba, and Francesco M. Galassi