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Eros and Anteros : the medical traditions of love in the renaissance / edited by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella.

Title
Eros and Anteros : the medical traditions of love in the renaissance / edited by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella.
Publication
Ottawa, Canada : Dovehouse Editions, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Beecher, Donald
  • Ciavolella, Massimo, 1942-
Description
231 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
University of Toronto Italian studies ; 9
Uniform Title
University of Toronto Italian studies 9.
Alternative Title
  • Eros & Anteros.
  • Eros & Anteros
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Early works
Note
  • Cover title: Eros & Anteros.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
From mental faculties to magical philters : the entry of magic into academic medical writings on lovesickness, 13th-17th centuries / Mary Frances Wack -- The devil and lovesickness : views of 16th century physicians and demonologists / Jean Céard -- Quattrocento views on the eroticization of the imagination / Donald A. Beecher -- A defense of the senses in Lorenzo Valla's Theory of pleasure / Maristella Lorch -- Eros and the phatasms of Hereos / Massimo Ciavolella -- The role of the senses in Mario Equicola's Philosophy of love / Enrico Musacchio -- The art of memory and the erotic image in 16th and 17th century Europe : the example of Giovan Battista Della Porta / Lina Bolzoni -- A dossier for the study of jealousy / Paolo Cherchi -- Love, sex, and eugenics in the City of the sun / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Eros and misogyny from Giovan Battista Marino to Ferrante Pallavicino / Francesco Guardiani -- Ethical problems of the lie that heals in Renaissance literature / Winfried Schleiner -- The poetics of eroticism : Shakespeare's "Master mistress" / Raymond B. Waddington -- Eros vulgarized : the English vocabulary of medical writing on sexuality in the 16th and 17th centuries / Charlotte F. Otten -- Reflections on love-melancholy in Robert Burton / Jackie Pigeaud.
ISBN
  • 1895537096 (bound)
  • 1895537088 (pbk.)
LCCN
cn^92090516^
OCLC
  • 27972747
  • SCSB-12461137
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library