Measured Words

Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

Arielle Saiber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-3950-7 (ISBN)

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Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti's treatis on cryptography, Luca Pacioli's ideal proportions for designing Roman capital letters, Niccolo Tartaglia's poem embedding his solution to solving cubic equations, and Giambattista Della Porta's curious study on the elements of geometric curves. Although they came from different social classes and practiced the mathematical and literary arts at differing levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the arts yielded extraordinary results. Through measuring their words, literally and figuratively, they are models of what the very best interdisciplinary work can offer us.

Arielle Saiber is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Well-Versed Mathematics Chapter One Cryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti's De componendis Cifris (1466) Chapter Two Divine Characters: Luca Pacioli's "degno alphabeto Anticho" (1509) Chapter Three A Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation: Niccolo Tartaglia's "Quando chel cubo" (1546) Chapter Four Hidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta's Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/1610) Bibliography Index

Reihe/Serie	Toronto Italian Studies
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 235 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8020-3950-2 / 0802039502
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-3950-7 / 9780802039507
Zustand	Neuware