Dante and the Sciences of the Human

Matteo Pace is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Connecticut College, in the USA. Upon earning a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2019, he won a Santorio Award for Excellence in Research from the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, where he is also an Associate Fellow. In his research, he focuses on the intersections between vernacular cultures and medical thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Besides Dante, he has published on Boccaccio’s Decameron; Guido Cavalcanti and Dino del Garbo; Giacomo da Lentini and the Aristotelian tradition; Guido Guinizzelli, Avicenna, and Taddeo Alderotti’s medical philosophy; and Catherine of Siena’s theology of blood.

• 1. Dante’s Sciences of the Human: An Introduction; Matteo Pace.- 2. When the Ocean Towered Above the Earth: Dante’s Questio in Context; Ivano Dal Prete.- 3. Passion and Passionless Love in Dante: From Epistola 3 to the Commedia; Joseph Romano.- 4. Anatomy of Florence: Illness and Body Politics in the Commedia; Andrea Celli.- 5. Neither O nor I: The Handiwork of Inferno 24 and 25; Arielle Saiber.- 6. Disabled Bodies and Female Souls: From Dante to Marinella; Catherine Bloomer.- 7. Speaking Like a Philosopher: Dante and Renaissance Treatises on Love; Eva Del Soldato. Index.