Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: Second Edition
Size: 8vo; 275 pages
Publisher: Valentino Bompiani, 1970, Milano

[Book #15620]

Second Edition, revised and enlarged, "Seconda edizione riveduta e accresciuta", Contursi A001b. Near Fine in orginal wrappers. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi;

Eco's first book covers the aesthetic theories of Saint Thomas Aquinas (c1225 -1274) in light of his other writings and medieval theories of beauty. He discusses Aquinas' concept of transcendental beauty, his theory of aesthetic perception or visio, and his account of the three conditions of beauty - integrity, proportion, and clarity. In the original Italian language