Abstract
Introduction: The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages - Physis and Ethos - Some Medieval Notions of Natura - Augustine's Anti-Essentialism - Boccaccio's Poetaphysics - Postscript: Naturalism in Modern Boccaccio Studies - The Nature of Poetry - Imitatrix Naturae - Helen's Natural Beauty - The Word Was in the Beginning - The Nature of Desire - The Art of Moses - Education of a Natural-Born Poet - The Upspringing of Metaphor - Principles of Roman Archaeology - Cicero's Defense of Poetry - Boccaccio on the Poetics of History - Poetic Solitude - The Language of the Gods - Two Ways Not to Read (And Going Both Ways) - Epilogue: Homo Homificans - Notes - Works Cited
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