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Massimo Riva : Work in Progress

A Single Art and Science: Incunabula for a Digital Humanism.

In this collection of essays directly emerging from my experience with electronic media, I discuss current perspectives on scholarship and pedagogy, in the age of digital incunabula. I see the main challenge of this book as translating into critical discourse the new cognitive values emerging from my experimentation with digital technology, for the benefit of scholars, teachers and students engaged in these practices, as well as all those readers interested in the future (the present) of the humanities.

Lovesick in Eden. Literature as Antidote in G. Boccaccio's Decameron.

In an essay published in Italian on the journal Italian Quarterly (2000), I read the Decameron as an antidote to lovesickness, within the classical and medieval, literary and medical tradition of melancholy. In this book, I move on to explore the virtual space designed by the text as a garden of delight, both rhetorical playground and ethical labyrinth, in which the reader is invited to find his/her own path. A first step of this exploration is an essay (in English) on the "purgatorial" nature of Boccaccio's Eden, which has appeared as a chapter in a volume on Paradise on Earth, edited by Gina Psaki and Pier Cesare Bori.

Toward the Blue Peninsula/Verso la penisola blu.
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