Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana / Geography and history of the italian literature

Il classico pubblicato nel n. 16/2017 è tratto da Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana  di Carlo Dionisotti. The classic published in the issue n. 16/2017 is the text Geography and history of the italian literature by Carlo Dionisotti

Letture per il corso di editoria

Una selezione di testi non sempre facilmente rintracciabili ma molto utili a segnare un itinerario che porta alla modernit\ue0 dell\u2019editoria, dal primo editore Manuzio, studiato da Carlo Dionisotti, alla trasformazione dei supporti analizzata da Roger Chartier, passando per i testi di Donald McKenzie e Robert Darnton. Una breve sezione \ue8 dedicata alle scelte editoriali, con la spiegazione di paratesto di Genette e il caso di editing di Vittorini; non mancano infine le voci di grandi editori come Valentino Bompiani e Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Antologia ad uso didattico con sintetici cappelli introduttivi

In praise of art: Text and context of Leonardo's Paragone and its critique of the arts and sciences

Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone is often taken as the first significant testimony of the newly acquired status of the Renaissance artist in society. It is not clear, however, how much input (if any) Leonardo had in its composition. It seems, in fact, that the work was largely compiled from Leonardo's notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi soon after his death. For this reason, a number of scholars have been reluctant to take it as fully representative of Leonardo's achievements and opinions. By looking at the relationship between the text and the extant originals, as well as the interrelations between medical concepts and Leonardo's anatomical studies around 1480-1485, this paper seeks to show that both the rhetorico-dialectical argumentation of the Paragone and its contents reflect to a high degree Leonardo's interests and opinions at the time. In exploring the interconnections between rhetoric and medicine as they emerge in the Paragone, this paper argues that its rhetorical and dialogical modes of argumentation (particularly exempla, accumulation and syllogism) rest on medical and philosophical principles belonging both to a rhetorical and a medical tradition that were common currency in Milan during Leonardo's early sojourn in the city. \uc2\ua9 2005 The Society for Renaissance Studies, Blackwell Publishing Ltd