Main entry:

Mazzotta, Giuseppe, 1942-

Title & Author:

Cosmopoiesis : the Renaissance experiment / Giuseppe Mazzotta.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2001.

Description:

xvi, 106 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Toronto Italian studies. Emilio Goggio publication series

Notes:
Lectures entitled Constructing worlds : Renaissance experiments, delivered at Victoria College on Oct. 7, 14, and 21, 1999 and one additional essay.
A series of lectures entitled Constructing worlds--Renaissance experiment, delivered at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Oct. 7, 14, and 21, 1999 and one additional essay.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Summary:

"Cosmopoiesis means 'world-making, ' and in this 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) perspective. It is viewed as a time of individualities or it is studied in terms of disembodied ideas and abstract forms. Mazzotta calls for a new approach: the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences."--Jacket

Resources:
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ISBN:

0802035515 (bound)
9780802035516 (bound)
0802084214 (pbk.)
9780802084217 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ariosto, Ludovico 1474-1533
Bacon, Francis 1561-1626
Campanella, Tommaso 1568-1639
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616
Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527
Poliziano, Angelo 1454-1494 Fabula di Orpheo
European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 History and criticism.
Italian literature History and criticism.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Philosophy history
Literature italian
Literature history
Littérature européenne 1450-1600 (Renaissance) Histoire et critique.
Littérature italienne Histoire et critique.
Philosophie de la Renaissance.
02.01 history of science and culture.
European literature Renaissance
Italian literature
Kongress
Italienisch
Literatur
Renaissance
Aufsatzsammlung
Wereldbeeld.
Maatschappijbeeld.
Experimenten.
Letterkunde.
Italian literature 16th century History and criticism.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Toronto 1999.
Lectures.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Toronto Italian studies.
Toronto Italian studies. Goggio publications series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217373
Call No.: PN721 .M3 2001
Status: Available