Dante's Visions
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Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders.

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Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders.
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Cecilia Panti is Professor of History of medieval philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy). Her research interests in the fields of philosophy, optics, theory of music, and the quadrivium are featured in numerous academic journals and collective volumes. Her publications include editions of Robert Grosseteste's cosmological treatises (2001) and his De luce (2011); Johannes Tinctoris' Dictionary of Music (2004); a volume on acoustics in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2008); and the special issues of the journals Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies ('Latin and Arabic Theory of Perspective', Volume 29, 2021) and Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval ('Robert Grosseteste and Aristotelianism', Volume 30/1, 2023). Marco Piccolino has taught general physiology and the history of science at the University of Ferrara (Italy), where he is currently a member of the Centre of Neuroscience. He is a neurophysiologist who has conducted significant research in the physiology of the retina, publishing his results in prestigious international journals, including Nature and Science. He has written several volumes on the history of electrophysiology and sensory physiology, notably The Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology (2011) with Stanley Finger; Shocking Frogs: Galvani, Volta, and the Electric Origins of Neuroscience (2013) with Marco Bresadola; and Galileo's Visions: Piercing the Spheres of the Heavens by Eye and Mind (2013), with Nicholas J. Wade.