The Aesthetics of Grace ― Philosophy, Art and Nature

Milani reflects on the machine that is grace, mythological and religious images, and forms of representation. Among specific topics are the setting for enchantment, theological grace and sublime grace, ecstatic visions, canons of the aura, places of apparition, flight and the wave, silences of the cloister and the garden, elegance and delicateness, loveliness and resplendence, the oneiric and the marvelous, and the mourning of art in the modern age. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Raffaele Milani is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna, Italy, and the author of numerous books, including The Art of the Landscape (2009), Il paesaggio e un ‘avventura (The Adventure of Landscape, 2005), Il pittoresco (The Picturesque, 1996), and Le categorie estetiche (The Aesthetic Categories, 1991).
Corrado Federici holds an MA and a PhD in Italian literature from the University of Toronto. His recent publications include English translations of Franco Cardini’s La societa medievale (The Companion to Medieval Society, 2012), Renato Barilli’s Scienza della cultura e fenomenologia degli stili (The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, 2012), and Raffaele Milani’s L’arte del paesaggio (The Art of the Landscape, 2010). He is also co-editor of the following collections of essays: Rewriting Texts – Remaking Images (Peter Lang, 2010), Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l’oeil (Peter Lang, 2009), and Beauty and the Abject (Peter Lang, 2007).