Dante and the Human Body

The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars and theologians.

They are: "The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body in the Commedia" by Simon A.

Gilson (University of Warwick); "Dante, Medicine and the Invisible Body" by Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre, University of London); "The Scientific Context of Dante's Embryology" by Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa); and "Sanatio and Salvatio: 'Body' and Soul in the Experience of Dante's Afterlife" by Simone De Angelis (University of Berne).They also include "Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in the Commedia" by Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford); "Divina anatomia: Laying Bare Body and Soul in the Commedia" by Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (formerly of the University of Cambridge); "'La rosa in che il verbo divino carne si fece': Human Bodies and Truth in the Poetic Narrative of the Commedia" by Vittorio Montemaggi (Churchill College, Cambridge); "World and Body: A Study in Dante's Cosmological Hermeneutics" by Oliver Davies (King's College, London).