No. 33 (2025)

Published January 6, 2026

Aesthetics and Medieval Thought

edited by Andrea Colli

Introduction

Andrea Colli

Aesthetics and medieval thought: contours and pieces of a vast mosaic

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Articles

Renato de Filippis

Bellezza, retorica e linguaggio: attorno al principio dell’aptum nell’alto Medioevo

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Marina Messeri

Hugh of St. Victor’s De tribus diebus on beauty, image, and the divine

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Silvia Negri

Visible humility in the middle of the thirteenth century: William Peraldus’s signa humilitatis

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Amalia Salvestrini

Minor ways to affective harmony

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Gonçalo Costa

Beauty and transcendentals in St. Thomas Aquinas

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Serena Allegra

Uncanny aesthetics in medieval thought: the case of the Dies irae

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Miscellaneous

Floriana Ferro

Human imagination and generative AI. A phenomenological perspective on design in MR environments

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Gabriele Gallina

Éthique et esthétique chez Paul Valéry, à l’aune de Theodor W. Adorno

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Alberto Merzari

Manifestation and concealment between Western and Islamic aesthetics. Reassessing the orientalistic prejudice about the “Land of mysteries”

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Ossi Naukkarinen

Aesthetics of intoxication

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Reviews

Elena Beccherle

Christoph Wulf (ed.), Handbook on intangible cultural practices as global strategies for the future Cham, Springer, 2025, pp. 570

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Luca Viglialoro

Emmanuel Alloa, Attraverso l’immagine. Una fenomenologia dei media visuali traduzione italiana a cura di A. De Cesaris, Milano, Meltemi, 2024, pp. 522

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Surveys

Serena Massimo

The art of playing: art and play as practices of re-aestheticization

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Book Forums

Arnold Berleant, Yrjö Sepänmaa, Yuriko Saito, Isis Brook

On Arnold Berleant, The social aesthetics of human environments: critical themes, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 216

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