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<\/a>Sample of original italic typeface designed by Ludovico Arrighi ca 1527.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018Firmar la Mano\u2019: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship<\/h6>\n
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475\u20131527) is an important figure in the history of calligraphy and type design. In this paper, Professor Stephanie Jed<\/a> will explore the rhetoric of embodiment in his Operina<\/em>, a pamphlet about the writing style known as chancery hand which was a precursor for the fonts we now recognize as italic. According to Arrighi, certain letters possess \u2018reason\u2019 on account of their \u2018testolina,\u2019 or \u2018little heads.\u2019\u00b2 Other letters have bodies and \u2018bellies\u2019 and \u2018legs.\u2019 But most important is the \u2018live hand\u2019 that creates these letters with its movements, steadiness, and efforts. In particular, Arrighi\u00b9s efforts that produced handmade letters on the page, in woodcuts, and in metal type might be productively examined in relation to current studies in the field of neuroscience. This paper explores, in particular, how Arrighi might have understood the role of the hand in distributing attention, processing visual materials, and creating a we-centric space of scholarship. Framing this talk with neuroscientific research on these topics, Jed suggests ways in which such research might illuminate the significance of Arrighi (and others) as early scholars of embodied cognition AND how the work of figures like Arrighi might enrich current laboratory research with important historical questions.<\/p>\n Stephanie Jed is a professor of literature at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n Sponsored by the Medieval and Early Modern Inquiries into Gender and Sexuality (MEMIGS<\/a>) research interest group of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paulson Reading Room Knight Library, 2nd Floor North 15th & Kincaid Street University of Oregon \u2018Firmar la Mano\u2019: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475\u20131527) is an important figure in the history of…<\/p>\n