La stanza della memoria: amore e malattia nel Secretum e nei Rerum vulgarium fragmenta

Il saggio analizza il ruolo dell'immaginazione e dell'immagine (phantasia, phantasma) nel Secretum e in quattro sonetti scelti dai Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta rifacendosi alle concezioni sulle passioni sviluppate da Aristotele e Galeno e poi riprese dai medici e dai filosofi naturali arabi e scolastici.The essay analyses the role of the imagination and of the image («phantasia», «phantasma») in the Secretum and in four sonnets of the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta according to the conception of passions developed by Aristotle and Galen, and later inherited by Arabic and Scholastic physicians and natural philosophers

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Francesca da Rimini nel cinema muto americano

Nel 1908 la Vitagraph Company of America rilasciò un cortometraggio diretto da J. Stuart Blackton intitolato Francesca di Rimini, or the Two Brothers dela durata di 15 minuti. Lo stesso regista due anni dopo rigirò ua secondo cortometraggio, Francesca di Rimini, dimostrazione evidente della notorietà di cui godeva in quegli anni l'episodio del quinto canto dell'Inferno dsntesco. Nel 1928 il grande regista David Wark Griffith riprese l'episodio in un lungometraggio muto che intitolò Drums of Love.En 1908 la Vitagraph Company of America va llançar un curtmetratge de 15 minuts dirigit per J. Stuart Blackton titulat Francesca di Rimini, or the Two Brothers. El mateix director, dos anys més tard, va rodar un segon curtmetratge, Francesca di Rimini, una clara demostració de la notorietat que l'episodi del cinquè cant de l'Infern de Dante gaudia en aquells anys. En 1928 el gran director David Wark Griffith va filmar l'episodi en un llargmetratge mut titulat Drums of Love.In 1908 the Vitagrapg Company of America released a 15 minutes short movie directed by J. Stuart Blackton entitled Francesca di Rimini, or the Two Brothers. The same director two years later directed a second short film, Francesca di Rimini, a clear proof of the notariety that the episode from Dante's fifth canto of Hell enjoyed at the time. In 1928 the great diector David Wark Griffith returned to the same episode in a silent full-length movie entitled Drums of Love.En 1908 la Vitagraph Company of America lanzó un cortometraje de 15 minutos dirigido por J. Stuart Blackton titulado Francesca di Rimini, or the Two Brothers. El mismo director, dos años más tarde, rodó un segundo cortometraje, Francesca di Rimini, una clara demostración de la notoriedad que el episodio del quinto canto del Infierno de Dante gozaba en aquellos años. En 1928 el gran director David Wark Griffith filmó el episodio en un largometraje mudo titulado Drums of Love

La tradizione dell amalattia d'amore dal mondo classico allo Scriptum super cantilena Guidonis de Cavalcantibus di Dino del Garbo

This study traces the evolution of the medical concept of aegritudo amoris from the Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages, paying attention to the correlation between medical doctrines and literary conventions. In Chapter One it is argued that the concept of love-sickness has its roots in the doctrine of melancholy and of folly developed by the Hippocratic writers. The evolution of the concept is not, however, restricted within the narrow limits of the medical tradition, but it is characterized by a gradual penetration of elements taken from Greek philosophy, represented by Plato and Aristotle, and from the literary tradition, especially Euripides. The influence of this concept is traced through the Roman world (the story of Antiochus and Stratonices, Lucretius, Ovid) and through the writings of the early Fathers of the Church. Chapter Two follows the development of the medical concept of love-sickness from the Byzantine physicians Oribasius and Paulus Aegineta to those medical writers, Arabic and Latin, who dedicated sections of their works to the study of love. The second part of the Chapter provides a transcription of these medical treatments of love. The final Chapter assesses the contribution of this tradition to the literature of the late Middle Ages, through an examination of three prose-treatises on love, the first Arabic: The Dove's Meek Ring by Ibn Hazm, the second French: the De Amore by Andreas Capellanus, the third Italian: the Scriptum super cantilena Guidonis de Cavalcantibus by Dino del Garbo. Finally, the canzone "Donna me prega" by Cavalcanti is examined both from a thematic point of view and in relation to the conception of love developed by Cavalcanti’s "primo amico", Dante Alighieri.Arts, Faculty ofFrench, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department ofGraduat