Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Index
Michele Rak, The Mechanical Reason: Glands, Fairy Tales, and Androids from Descartes to Basile. Machines for the amusement of philosophers, kings, courtiers, and children - p.9
Fabrizio Scrivano, The Tale That Makes Sick and Heals - p.31
Giovanna Zaganelli/Toni Marino, Narrative Strategies, Moral Reaction, and Social Pact in the Decameron - p.43
Puma Valentina Scricciolo, The Grand Manner and Unkind Love. From the poetry of Pietro Aretino to the majolica of Deruta, through the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi - p.63
Laura Nuti, The Experiments of Caterina Sforza - p.85
Genny Luchini, “Sweet Martyr.” Contemplating Beauty in Suffering and Disease in the Renaissance Era - p.95
Giovanna Spina, “The Decorum of the Body” in the Renaissance Herbal of Pietro Andrea Mattioli - p.105
Simone Gianesini, The Bloodied Hands of the Cisalpine. A Proposal in Limine to Foscolo’s Ortis - p.115
Aldo Stella, Where is Health Hiding? - p.137
Matteo Baraldo, At the Margins of Literature: Written Amulets and Narrative Medicine - p.145
Michele Dantini, Alighiero Boetti and the “Nothing” (1966-1969). Curtains, Distances, Interregnums - p.169
Data, methods, and other DNA of writing.
Interview with Michele Rak
by Antonello Lamanna and Luca Padalino - p.179
Michele Rak, Civil Naples, Argo, 2021, pp. 519, ISBN 9788882342463
by Luca Padalino - p.189
Beaten and healed: the Diary of Alfred Dreyfus (Five Years on Devil's Island, Milan, Medusa, 2005, pp. 170, ISBN 9788876980961)
by Fabrizio Scrivano - p.195