... gentil” offers a groundbreaking theory of nobility that philosophically conflates love with nobility. This article argues that the philosophical progress of the canzone presents an understanding of medical and scientific terminology that must be put in contact with Taddeo and his interest in Avicenna’s...

... . Poetics translated by Butcher S. H. . New York : Hill and Wang , 1961 . Augustine . In Iohannis evangelium tractatus CXXIV , edited by Willems R. . Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 1954 . Avicenna . Poème de la Médecine , edited and translated by Jahier Henri...

... frequently rendered into verse. There are many examples of this practice, but the most illustrious is without a doubt Avicenna’s Medical Poem , which reads as a poetic summary of his encyclopedic textbook, Al Qanun Fi Al-Tibb ( The Canon of Medicine ). From such practice a specific genre came...

..., for instance, we close our eyes, dream or remember. ll Avicenna and Averroes, two major contributors to medieval optics, remember this mnemonic quality of the phantasm. 12 For Avicenna, sensible experience receives the shapes that imprint them- 9. Agamben Stanze (Paris: Bourgois, 1977) Note 21 p. 139. 10. Ibid...