Sky and earth : travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo / Giuseppe Mussardo, Gaspare Polizzi.
2023
PQ4391.P65
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Sky and earth : travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo / Giuseppe Mussardo, Gaspare Polizzi.
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Tra cielo e terra. English
ISBN
9783031186110 (electronic bk.)
3031186117 (electronic bk.)
9783031186103
3031186109
3031186117 (electronic bk.)
9783031186103
3031186109
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from Italian.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-18611-0 doi
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PQ4391.P65
Dewey Decimal Classification
850.9/002
Summary
700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds. If Polo was the ordinary genius of the XIII century, the designation of sorcerer genius must go to Alighieri, the man with encyclopedic wisdom, at ease with his eras philosophy, theology, and science. The sorcerer geniuswell versed in this worldmust create their own, which he did with The Divine Comedy. On the other hand, The Travels of Marco Polo, the greatest classic in travel literature, offers wonder and provides delight. This book combines the unforgettable characters of both books, the darkness of the infernal landscapes with the immensity of the Asian deserts, the richness of the Mongol empire with the glamor of medieval philosophy, the aspirations and dreams of two great explorers with knowledge of the science of their time, as well as the ever-eternal cosmology. This is an accessible and entertaining book for high school students, scholars of scientific history and the history of ideas, and curious readers who want to know more about Dante and Marco Polo and their unquenchable thirst for knowledge. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
The Merchant and the Poet
Ordinary Geniuses and Sorcerers
The Gigantic Crystal
The Enigma of the Lost Manuscript
The Disease of Writing
In the Darkness of Hell
The Hill of Purgatory
The Light of Heaven
The Troubles of Botticelli
A Non-Existent Book
Diplomatic Missions
The Art of Traveling
The Endless Quarrels
Venice and Florence
The Opening of the Thirteenth Century
The World Seen from Rialto. An Extraordinary Republic
The Horses of San Marco
The Art of Wool
At the Roots of Hatred
International Intrigue
"How Other People's Bread Tastes Like Salt".
The Merchant and the Poet
Ordinary Geniuses and Sorcerers
The Gigantic Crystal
The Enigma of the Lost Manuscript
The Disease of Writing
In the Darkness of Hell
The Hill of Purgatory
The Light of Heaven
The Troubles of Botticelli
A Non-Existent Book
Diplomatic Missions
The Art of Traveling
The Endless Quarrels
Venice and Florence
The Opening of the Thirteenth Century
The World Seen from Rialto. An Extraordinary Republic
The Horses of San Marco
The Art of Wool
At the Roots of Hatred
International Intrigue
"How Other People's Bread Tastes Like Salt".