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La medicina dell’anima: prosa e poesia per il racconto della malattia


ISBN: 978 88 32193 30 5
ISSN 2704-9485
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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La medicina dell’anima: prosa e poesia per il racconto della malattia

The book goes through italian literature, from Renaissance to contemporaneity, inquiring ways, times and places of intersection between medical science and literature. From scenes to poems, from treatises to storytelling, italian literature told a lot about sickness, using medical science as a sister-art. Literary criticism has only recently started to focus on new research fields that narrative medicine and biopoetics had already found. This book points to an encroachment and is an invitation to cross the “limen” , focusing on authors and texts which told about sickness, to cure it, to uderstand it, to get rid of it or just to keep it far.

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Valeria Merola teaches Italian Literature at the Department of Humanistic Science at University of L’Aquila. She mainly focused on writing for theatre and of the moral theme in literature. She published studies about Emanuele Tesauro and XV century literature, and about theatre between XVIII and XIX century. She is at the momento focusing her research on the intersections between literary genres and languages.

Daniela De Liso teaches Italian Literature at the Department of Humanistic Science at University of Naples Federico II. She published many essays and volumes about Renaissance italian literature and took part in many international conferences. She is now focusing on intersections between literature and art. She is, moreover, part of the scientific committee of the journals “Critica letteraria” and “Studium”.


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