Elocuencia y esplendor. Del humanismo y la óptica en Dante

Rafael Martínez

doi:10.22201/fesa.figuras.2021.3.1.185

Authors

J Rafael Martínez-E Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Matemáticas. México (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7739-8315

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.figuras.2021.3.1.185

Keywords:

Dante, Humanism, Convivio, Commedia, Light, Vision, Optics, Perspective

Abstract

The works that made Dante famous are written in the vernacular lenguage, but even so there were distinguished scholars who included him as a member, or even a predecessor, of Florentine humanism. This question is analyzed and also the fact that his texts, in particular the Convivio and the Commedia, unlike almost the rest of the humanist writings, exhibit an erudite handling of the state of the art concerning his knowledge of the literature on optics circulating at the beginning of the 15th century in Italy.

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Author Biography

J Rafael Martínez-E, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Matemáticas. México

Bachelor Degree in physics in 1974. Postgraduate studies in Statistical Mechanics in England (1975-77) and from 1979, full-time academic in the Mathematics Department at Facultad de Ciencias (UNAM). Research stays at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), University of Florence, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), A. Koyrè Institute (Paris), etc.

His areas of academic interest are the history of science, natural philosophy and mathematics, particularly in classical Greece. History of mathematics in the Arab world, history of optics from Greek antiquity to the 17th century. The confluence of the pictorial arts and mathematics in the Renaissance. The astronomical revolution from the 14th century until the beginning of the 16th.

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