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Cosmopoiesis : The Renaissance Experiment /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Poliziano's Orfeo : the world as fable
  • Ariosto and Machiavelli : real worlds/imaginary worlds
  • Adventures of Utopia : Campanella, Bacon, and The tempest
  • The Ludic perspective : Don Quixote and the Italian renaissance.