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1. ROMA 2019
EDIZIONI DI STORIA E LETTERATURA
STORIA E LETTERATURA
R A C C O L T A D I S T U D I E T E S T I
305
ASTONISHMENT
ESSAYS ON WONDER FOR PIERO BOITANI
edited by
EMILIA DI ROCCO
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Prima edizione: febbraio 2019
ISBN 978-88-9359-273-4
eISBN 978-88-9359-274-1
Volume pubblicato con il contributo di “Sapienza” – Università degli Studi di Roma,
Dipartimento di studi europei, americani e interculturali
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3. INDICE DEL VOLUME
Introduction. Why Wonder? di EMILIA DI ROCCO ................................. VII
Tabula gratulatoria.................................................................................. XV
PART I
A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
TERENCE CAVE, Wonder as a Mode of Thought: Aristotle, George Eliot,
Marilynne Robinson.................................................................................... 3
PETER DRONKE, Meravigliarsi: dall’antichità al Duecento ...................... 17
JEAN-PIERRE SONNET, “He Who Makes Wonders”. God’s Mirabilia
in the Hebrew Bible Between Narrative and Poetry............................... 31
MICHAEL FINKENTHAL, From Marvelous Complexity to the Complexity
of the Marvelous...................................................................................... 49
MARCO TAVANI, Double Wonder: the Effectiveness of Mathematics
in Physics................................................................................................. 59
ZHANG LONGXI, Mirror of Enigma and Mirror of Magic:
a Comparative Study ............................................................................... 71
AZADEH YAMINI HAMEDANI, Wonder in the Flesh: Boitani
in Santa Barbara MMIX ......................................................................... 87
NICK HAVELY, On the Tuscan Apennines: Wonders and Warfare........... 97
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4. INDICE DEL VOLUME
VI
PART II
FROM THE BIBLE TO CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
EDMONDO F. LUPIERI, “E stupii vedendola, con grande stupore” (Ap. 17,6).
Noterelle semiserie ed a tratti lamentose in onore di Piero Boitani ....... 115
EMILIA DI ROCCO, Towards the “stordimento d’animo”: Dante from
Wonder to Astonishment ........................................................................ 129
ANDREA A. ROBIGLIO, Aquinas on Recognition ...................................... 153
MARIA LUISA ARDIZZONE, The Wondrous Humble Plant of Purgatorio I
(vv. 133-136). Introducing a Lost Meaning of the Second Cantica
in Dante’s Commedia.............................................................................. 165
GUR ZAK, Boccaccio’s Ulysses and the Limits of Heroism....................... 179
GRETCHEN HENDRICK – FREDERICK M. BIGGS, Decameron 3.9
and the Wife of Bath’s Tale..................................................................... 195
BARRY WINDEATT, Chaucer and Wonder................................................. 205
JON WHITMAN, Wonderment: Apprehending the Arthurian World........ 219
PETER KUON, “Vis noua monstra?” Thomas More’s Response
to New World Travelogues...................................................................... 229
FRANCESCA BUGLIANI KNOX, From Admiration to Wonder:
A Reading of John Donne’s Anniversaries.............................................. 243
DOMINIQUE JULLIEN, Wonder in Borges: the Final Chapters................... 261
MAY HAWAS, Some Observations on the Mediterranean Sublime:
From C. P. Cavafy to Elena Ferrante...................................................... 277
JOERG O. FICHTE, Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll Ulenspiegel in Wonderland:
His Wondrous Survival in the Time of War and Witchcraft..................... 293
Index of Names....................................................................................... 311
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