Guido Cavalcanti

While other scholars have noted Cavalcanti's Averroism, Ardizzone is the first to analyse it in light of sciences such as optics or logic, focusing on new issues of intellectual debate of Cavalcanti's time, as, for instance, the medieval theory of matter.

Maria Luisa Ardizzone is a professor in the Department of Italian Studies at New York University.

'Ardizzone has made a profound contribution to our understanding of medieval thought and poetry. She has written a book of great interest to any medievalist.'

Giuseppe Mazzotta, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University:

'Ardizzone has made a profound contribution to our understanding of medieval thought and poetry. She has written a book of great interest to any medievalist.'