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Un cuento de robots : La hija cibernética de descartes
2021
French philosopher René Descartes is today valued as a forerunner of the studies of human mind, artificial intelligence and robotic systems. Throughout his work there are large references to automata and the possibility of artificial life, as well as an assessment of the differences between rational behavior of human beings and the purely mechanical of animals and automata. In addition to these references, there is a fable about the creation by the philosopher of an automaton that replicated his deceased daughter Francine, a story that is well known among the French and Anglo-Saxon specialists, but not so much in the Spanish ones, which is what settles this short work
Limits to Learning: the Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Age
2013
'Preface' al volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon Egland
2014
The Preface to the volume Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose describes the contents of the essays within the aims of the larger project on Anglo-Saxon and early Middle English hagiography
The Descensus ad inferos in the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac and Vercelli Homily xxiii
2014
Concetta Giliberto’s essay investigates the motif of the descensus ad inferos in the anonymous Old English version of Felix’s Vita S. Guthlaci and Vercelli Homily xxiii, two texts which have been shown to be independently derived from a now lost vernacular translation of the Latin Vita. Apart from some differences in the two texts, the account of the devilish persecution of St Guthlac culminating in the episode of the descensus ad inferos is a most revealing case study of the Anglo-Saxon appropriation of the hagiographic genre, in that one of the most classical topoi of the saints’ lives narratives, that is the struggle with demons, itself demonstrably traceable to the very foundational hag…
'Forgotten Missionaries: St Augustine of Canterbury in Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest England’
2014
The essay provides a full overview of the alternate fortune of the cult of St Augustine of Canterbury and other missionaries, who hold a distinctive place in Anglo-Saxon hagiography. The essay takes into examination both literary and liturgical witnesses and both pre- and post-Conquest texts, in Latin and the vernacular. The narrative of the mission and of Augustine himself offered by Bede, although inevitably partial, shaped all the successive representations of the saint in the few literary witnesses dating from the Anglo-Saxon period. The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum will remain the major source also in post-Conquest England and be largely drawn upon by Goscelin. For its part, …
An unpublished De lapidibus in its manuscript tradition, with particular regard to the Anglo-Saxon area
2007
Il saggio offre un’edizione critica e l’analisi dettagliata di un interessante lapidario latino, finora mai pubblicato, che circolava nell’Inghilterra del tardo periodo anglosassone. Nella tradizione manoscritta (che comprende, allo stato attuale, otto codici), tale opera, intitolata ‘De lapidibus’, si trova associata a testi scientifici, ovvero trattati di geometria, di musica, di tipo computistico, sulla natura dei metalli, o ancora i cosiddetti de sphaera ceali e de mensuris. Il ‘De Lapidibus’ era assai verosimilmente destinato ad un uso didattico e si inserisce in quella vasta e intricata rete di rapporti e scambi culturali e di circolazione di idee e di intellettuali che nel corso del …
Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: Adopting and Adapting Saints’ Lives into Old English Prose (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 73)
2014
This volume gathers fourteen new essays devoted to Old English prose saints’ lives from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Moving from diverse methodological approaches and building on the most recent developments in primary and secondary scholarship, the contributions comprehensively consider the texts and contexts of the vernacular hagiographic output both by Ælfric, the major hagiographer of his day, and by anonymous authors. Attention is devoted also to the post-Conquest legacy of Anglo-Saxon hagiography, as Ælfric’s Lives of Saints continued to be read, copied, edited, and readapted throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In the new stress on the Latin source-texts, among which the lo…
Incantesimi in inglese antico contro un dweorg
2021
The word dweorg with the meaning ‘dwarf’ was certainly available in Anglo-Saxon England, as attested to by the earliest glossaries, such as those of Épinal and Erfurt, where it is used to render the Latin nanus and pumilio. OE dweorg also occurs in a group of five charms and medical recipes, where it seems to designate an ailment, characterized by a strong and sudden onset of fever. Particularly, in the remedies contained in the Medicina de quadrupedibus and in the Peri didaxeon – both translations of Latin medical treatises – OE dweorg means ‘fever’. In the Old English period, the semantic value of the term shifted, ending up to denote the pathological condition itself. More specifically, …
Napoleone Colajanni e la questione razziale
2020
Il saggio propone una lettura della questione della razza nella riflessione di Napoleone Colajanni (1847-1921) e ne sottolinea aspetti anticipatori di una sensibilità che avrebbe caratterizzato la riflessione successiva condotta in ambito antropologico. The essay proposes a reading of the question of race in the reflection of Napoleone Colajanni (1847-1921) and highlights aspects anticipating a sensitivity that would have characterized the subsequent reflection conducted in the anthropological field.