... Guinizzelli di Magnano (1230s–1276), judge, prosecutor, and one of the main literary references of the upcoming Dolce Stilnovo , and the professional activity of Taddeo Alderotti (1206/1215–1295), the catalyst of the new scientific trends of the Bolognese medical school. Guido Guinizzelli’s canzone “Al cor...

... how the “scientificity” of thirteenth-century Italian vernacular lyric establishes poetry as a “battlefield” in which ideas about natural philosophy are tested and contested. More specifically, he uncovers how Avicenna’s theory of forma specifica , as discussed in medical commentaries by Taddeo...

... Naturwissenschaften und der Medezin , vol. 7 , Heft 2, 151 – 220 . Berlin : Springer , 1939 . Ross Jill . Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2008 . Siraisi Nancy . Taddeo Alderotti and His...

..., Taddeo Alderotti. 14. See Guadagnini 356–57. Seven of the eight copies are thus fairly modest in material quality of support and script (mercantile and notarial scripts, aside from the littera textualis of MS II.iv.127, BNCF). 13. See title pages in MS II.iv.127, Biblioteca Nazionale...