Renaissance Futurities

Resumen del libro

Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452 1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio Delminio Camillo (1480 1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514 1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547 1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.