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Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal book cover

1st Edition

Guido Cavalcanti Poet of the Rational Animal

By Gregory B. Stone Copyright 2020
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Guido Cavalcanti, Dante’s intellectual mentor, is widely considered among the greatest Italian lyric poets; his famous and notoriously difficult philosophical canzone Donna me prega is often characterized as the most studied lyric poem in Italian literature. This book situates Cavalcanti’s poetry in the context of the Arabic Aristotelian rationalism that entered the Latin West in the 12th... Read more

Introduction

Part One: The Intelligence of Love: On the Sweet New Style

Part Two: The Figure of Cavalcanti: Intimations of Heterodoxy

Part Three: The Salvation of Intellect in Arabic Aristotelian Philosophy

Al-Farabi on the Conjunction

Avicenna on the Conjunction

Averroes on the Conjunction

Part Four: Who Could Think Beyond Nature? Allegories of Intellection

Part Five: Long Commentary on Donna me prega

Stanza 1

Stanza 2

Stanza 3

Excursus I: Averroes on the Rationality of Emotion

Excursus II: Recollection, Cogitation, and Time

Excursus III: Mars and Irascible Desire

Stanza 4

Stanza 5

Entry

Biography

Gregory B. Stone is Joseph S. Yenni Memorial Professor of Italian Studies and professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. His previous books on Italian literature are Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics.

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