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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 century―a tradition marked by questions concerning whether humans can ever transcend their animality. Cavalcanti’s poetry is a focal point where one can view, circa 1300 AD, Arabo-Islamic philosophyin the process of being assimilated and naturalized in Western Europe, eventually leading to values (associated with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment) that we now call modern and secular―in particular, to a notion of human reason as bound up with imagination and with ethical __praxis__ rather than as a means for the attainment of knowledge concerning God and the cosmos. The book features a radically unprecedented interpretation of __Donna me prega__, starkly opposed to all previous accounts: far from treating love as a threat to reason that would best be eliminated, the canzone praises loving a

Who reads Guido Cavalcanti : Poet of the Rational Animal?

Author

Gregory B. Stone

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429560262

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities