The Italian Canon Abroad

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: the Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500

NANCY G. SIRAISI, Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: the Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500, Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xii, 410, £31.40. "To what part of philosophy does it belong?" asked the medieval teacher, introducing a new text to his class. The book reviewer often has to do likewise. Here, the expectations of the reader might coincide with one of th...

The Canon Score Language

Canon is both a notation for musical scores and a programming language. Canon offers a combination of declarative style and a powerful abstraction capability which allows a very high-level notation for sequences of musical events and structures. Transformations are operators that can adjust common parameters such as loudness or duration. Transformations can be nested and time-varying, and their...

The Canon - 6

Editorial note. Each A&M issue will contain (in no particular sequence) a reappraisal of a past text of what may be considered (unfashionably) canonical, classical or at least of continuing interest in medical anthropology or cultural psychiatry. The sixth is by Hora-cio Fabrega and Daniel Silver. Piggy-backed onto the existing Harvard University Chiapas Project in SouthWestern Mexico, Fabrega ...

Code-switching and Italian abroad. Reflections on language contact and bilingual mixture

Apuleius and the Classical Canon

I begin with the question, “Is Apuleius a canonical author?” Any answer that one might give would of course raise other questions; and in the context of this volume, the most important of these would be whether Apuleius’ African origin enters into it. But before confronting that question, I have to address a few others that are more basic. For one can hardly get started on this problem until as...