Mattia Cipriani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mattia Cipriani is involved.
Articles
2020 On the borders of humanity: Amazons, wild men, giants and wolf-girls in Thomas of Cantimpré’s Liber de natura rerum Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 20–61 | Article
The Liber de natura rerum is a thirteenth-century encyclopedia that reflects the naturalistic interests of its author, the Dominican friar Thomas of Cantimpré (ca.1200/ 01–ca.1270/ 72). Despite his realistic focus, Thomas was a man of his time and he introduced elements in his work that may seem… read more
2017 “In dorso colorem habet inter viridem et ceruleum…”: Liber rerum e osservazione zoologica diretta nell’enciclopedia di Tommaso di Cantimpré Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 16–98 | Article
Like other contemporary encyclopaedists of his time, Thomas of Cantimpré (1200 ca.–1270/72) used a vast number of sources in his Liber de natura rerum (completed between 1241 and 1260 ca.), which he meticulously selected to copy, cut and ‘paste’ in order to create a solid, well-argued, coherent… read more