Cosmopoiesis
Subtitle: the Renaissance experiment
By: Giuseppe Mazzotta.
Series: Toronto Italian studies. Emilio Goggio publication series; Toronto Italian studies.; Toronto Italian studies.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.; Italian literature -- History and criticism.; Philosophy, Renaissance.
Description: "Cosmopoiesis means 'world-making,' and in this book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) perspective. It is viewed as a time of individualities or it is studied in terms of disembodied ideas and abstract forms.

Mazzotta calls for a new approach: the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Lectures entitled Constructing worlds : Renaissance experiments, delivered at Victoria College on Oct. 7, 14, and 21, 1999 and one additional essay.