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The essays in this volume explore Dante's interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars and theologians. They are: ""The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body in the Commedia"" by Simon A. Gilson (University of Warwick); ""Dante, Medicine and the Invisible Body"" by Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre, University of London); ""The Scientific Context of Dante's Embryology"" by Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa); and ""Sanatio and Salvatio: 'Body' and Soul in the Experience of Dante's Afterlife"" by Simone De Angelis (University of Berne).They also include ""Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in the Commedia"" by Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford); ""Divina anatomia: Laying Bare Body and Soul in the Commedia"" by Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (formerly of the University of Cambridge); ""'La rosa in che il verbo divino carne si fece': Human Bodies and Truth in the Poetic Narrative of the Commedia"" by Vittorio Montemaggi (Churchill College, Cambridge); ""World and Body: A Study in Dante's Cosmological Hermeneutics"" by Oliver Davies (King's College, London).

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The main area of John C. Barnes' research includes both Dante and other aspects of medieval Florentine culture; Jennifer Petrie has devoted her scholarly endeavour to Dante, Petrarch, St Caterina de' Ricci and 16th-century women Petrarchist poets.

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