Cosmopoiesis : : The Renaissance Experiment / / Giuseppe Mazzotta.
Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) perspecti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (111 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Poliziano's Orfeo
- 2. Ariosto and Machiavelli
- 3. Adventures of Utopia
- 4. The Ludic Perspective
- Notes
- Primary Texts