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

Autores/as

  • Massimo Ciavolella UCLA, University of California di Los Angeles

Resumen

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.

Palabras clave

memory, love, illness

Biografía del autor/a

Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA, University of California di Los Angeles

Massimo Ciavolella è professore di letteratura italiana e letteratura comparata  presso la UCLA, University of California di Los Angeles.

Publicado

03-11-2006

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