Massimo Ciavolella
· Professor; Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies, Department of European Languages & Transcultural StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Comparative Literature and Culture
Active 1973–2022
About
Massimo Ciavolella is a professor holding the Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies within the Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies at UCLA. His role involves engaging with Italian Renaissance Studies, contributing to the academic community through research and teaching in this specialized field. As a faculty member, he is part of the broader Comparative Literature department, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary study within the humanities. His position signifies a focus on Italian Renaissance cultural and literary studies, although specific details about his research, background, or key contributions are not provided on the page.
Research topics
- Humanities
- Art
- Computer Science
- Medicine
- Medical education
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- History
- Psychoanalysis
Selected publications
2022-12-06
paratextOpen accessThe Malady of Love in Early Modern Medical Thought
De Gruyter eBooks · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Philosophy
- Psychology
- History
De Gruyter eBooks · 2022 · 2 citations
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Computer Science
Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the particular language of the disciplines concerned with the human experience. However, as much as at first sight this definition appears to be clear, it does not reflect how the interaction of medicine with the humanities has evolved to become a separate field of study. In this publication we have explored, through the analysis of a group of selected multidisciplinary essays, the dynamics of this process. The essays predominantly address the interaction of literature, philosophy, art, art history, ethics, and education with medicine and its specialties from the classical period to the present. Particular attention has been given to the Medieval, Early Modern, and Enlightenment periods. To avoid a rigid compartmentalization of the book based on individual fields of study we opted for a fluid division into multidisciplinary sections, reflective of the complex interactions of the included works with medicine.
De Gruyter eBooks · 2022
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Art
European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care · 2015-07-02 · 5 citations
articleBACKGROUND: An early invasive strategy (EIS) has been shown to yield a better clinical outcome than an early conservative strategy (ECS) in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTEACSs), particularly in those at higher risk according to the GRACE risk score. However, findings of the clinical trials have not been confirmed in registries. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the outcome of patients with NSTEACS treated according to an EIS or a ECS in a real-world all-comers outcome research study. METHODS: The primary hypothesis of the study was the non-inferiority of an ECS in comparison with an EIS as to a combined primary end-point of death, non-fatal myocardial infarction and hospital readmission for acute coronary syndromes at one year. Participating centres were divided into two groups: those with a pre-specified routine EIS and those with a pre-specified routine ECS. Two statistical analyses were performed: a) an 'intention to treat' analysis: all patients were considered to be treated according to the pre-specified routine strategy of that centre; b) a 'per protocol' analysis: patients were analysed according to the actual treatment applied. Cox model including propensity score correction was applied for all analyses. RESULTS: The intention to treat analysis showed an equivalence between EIS and ECS (11.4% vs. 11.1%) with regard to the primary end-point incidence at one year. In the three subgroups of patients according to the GRACE risk score (⩽ 108, 109-140, > 140), EIS and ECS confirmed their equivalence (5.3% vs. 3.9%, 8.4% vs. 7.6%, and 20.3% vs. 20.9%, respectively). When the per protocol analysis was applied, a reduction of the primary end-point at one year with EIS vs. ECS was demonstrated (6.2% vs. 15.3%, p=0.021); analysis of the subgroups according to the GRACE risk score numerically confirmed these data (3.1% vs. 6.5%, 5.1% vs. 10.0%, and 10.8% vs. 24.5%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: In a real-life registry of all-comers NSTEACS patients, ECS was non-inferior to EIS; however, when EIS was applied according to clinical judgement, a reduction of clinical events at one year was demonstrated.
University of Toronto Press eBooks · 2014-12-31
book-chapterOpen accessBarolini argues that Dante's lyric poems are early articulations of many of the ideas and themes in the Commedia, including the philosophy and psychology of desire and its role as motor of all human activity, the quest for vision and transcendence, the search for justice on earth, and the transgression of boundaries in society and in poetry. With splendid new English translations and commentary, this edition brings Dante's early poems to a wider audience, while providing important literary and historical context.
University of Toronto Press eBooks · 2012-12-31
book-chapterOpen accesscIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2011-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis study traces the evolution of the medical concept of aegritudo amoris from the Greeks to the end of the Middle Ages, paying attention to the correlation between medical doctrines and literary conventions. In Chapter One it is argued that the concept of love-sickness has its roots in the doctrine of melancholy and of folly developed by the Hippocratic writers. The evolution of the concept is not, however, restricted within the narrow limits of the medical tradition, but it is characterized by a gradual penetration of elements taken from Greek philosophy, represented by Plato and Aristotle, and from the literary tradition, especially Euripides. The influence of this concept is traced through the Roman world (the story of Antiochus and Stratonices, Lucretius, Ovid) and through the writings of the early Fathers of the Church. Chapter Two follows the development of the medical concept of love-sickness from the Byzantine physicians Oribasius and Paulus Aegineta to those medical writers, Arabic and Latin, who dedicated sections of their works to the study of love. The second part of the Chapter provides a transcription of these medical treatments of love. The final Chapter assesses the contribution of this tradition to the literature of the late Middle Ages, through an examination of three prose-treatises on love, the first Arabic: The Dove's Meek Ring by Ibn Hazm, the second French: the De Amore by Andreas Capellanus, the third Italian: the Scriptum super cantilena Guidonis de Cavalcantibus by Dino del Garbo. Finally, the canzone "Donna me prega" by Cavalcanti is examined both from a thematic point of view and in relation to the conception of love developed by Cavalcanti’s "primo amico", Dante Alighieri.
2011-01-01
paratextUniversity of Toronto Press eBooks · 2010-12-31
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 45 shared
Elissa B. Weaver
- 45 shared
Luigi Ballerini
University of California, Los Angeles
- 41 shared
Bonetti Honorable
University of Toronto
- 41 shared
Anthony Scirica
Colby College
- 41 shared
Gianfranco Facco
Columbia University
- 36 shared
Del Raso
University of Toronto
- 36 shared
Lorenzo Da Ponte
University of California, Los Angeles
- 36 shared
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Awards & honors
- CLUA Summer Course Offerings
- The Edward W. Said Professorship and Events
- The Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture
- CLGSA Fellowship and Graduate Support
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