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Real animals in ideal cities : the place and use of animals in renaissance utopian literature
No full textAnimals populate literature dealing with ideal cities and imagined parallel worlds. In this essay Cecilia Muratori explores the place of animals in works sharing utopian traits by the Italian writers Ortensio Lando (c. 1512–53?), Francesco Patrizi (1529–97), and Anton Francesco Doni (1513–74). In particular, she investigates the ways in which the narratological device of displacing the human/animal relationship into an imaginary world enables an approach to the theoretical question about the difference between humans and animals as well as to the ethical one regarding the use of the animals. The presence of animals is a neglected aspect of such texts despite the extensive body of scholarship on utopian literature. Muratori argues that it is this specific combination of ontological issues and very practical remarks which makes these texts a particularly important case study for reconstructing Renaissance philosophical discussions on the status of animals. The problem of the human/animal divide and the question about human uniqueness thus appear alongside the discussion of topics such as how to preserve health in an ideal city or suggestions about the best diet for its citizens (a diet based on animals as food, for instance). Such concerns directly involve the assessment of the relation of humans to the world of animals, included in these imaginary cities or worlds as co-inhabitants, as sources of food, as living beings which share in various ways the same space as humans, and also as mirrors on which the definition of man as a special animal is projected
Aurora nascente. Traduzione, introduzione e commento di Cecilia Muratori
No full textOpera prima del ciabattino entusiasta Jakob Böhme, scritta di getto nel tentativo di esprimere in parole il contenuto della rivelazione mistica ricevuta, Aurora è stata colpita da accuse di eresia subito dopo la sua stesura nel 1612.
Si presentano per la prima volta in traduzione italiana i primi sette capitoli - una parte in sé conchiusa dell'opera - di un testo fondamentale del misticismo tedesco. La traduzione è accompagnata da un'ampia introduzione alla lettura(pp. 15-125)che colloca l'opera nel contesto del percorso filosofico di Böhme
La caduta dell'uomo e la sofferenza degli animali nella Disputatio tra Francesco Pucci e Fausto Sozzini
No full textThis contribution traces the evolution of a specific topic in the Disputatio between Francesco Pucci and Fausto Sozzini: the differentiation between man and animal. Addressing the ethical consequences of this distinction, the author argues that this topic plays an important role in the four texts which Pucci and Sozzini exchanged between 1577 and 1578. In particular, the essay considers the question about man's ethical behaviour towards animals and the arguments for and against vegetarianism, as they are developed alongside the discussion of Adam's nature before and after the fall
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No full textL'entusiasmo iniziale e il pronto disincanto del Muratori nella valutazione di Luigi XI
Better Animal Than Human: The Happy Animal and the Human Animal in the Renaissance Reception of Aristotle
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The Aristotelian Carnivore: The Ethical Afterlives of Aristotle's Theory of Animal Irrationality
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"A Philosopher Does Not Stand Still": Legacies and Receptions of the "Philosophus Teutonicus"
No full textCome vermi nel formaggio : La distinzione tra uomo e animali in una metafora Campanelliana
No full textFrom animal bodies to human souls : (pseudo-)Aristotelian animals in Della Porta’s Physiognomics
No full textThis article analyses the role that animals play in Della Porta’s method of physiognomics. It claims that Della Porta created his own, original, method by appropriating, and yet selectively adapting Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian sources. This has not been adequately reconstructed before in previous studies on Della Porta. I trace, in two steps, the conceptual trajectory of Della Porta’s physiognomics, from human psychology to animal psychology, and ultimately from psychology to ethics. In the first step, I show how Della Porta substantially adapts the physiognomic principle of the body-soul relationship as found in the pseudo-Aristotelian Physiognomonica. In the second, I demonstrate that the real aim of Della Porta’s physiognomics is a practical one, namely understanding how to live a good life, and I explain why he refers to Aristotle in order to ground this conception.
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