The new book by Elyangela Giannoni, entitled “Connection. Soul, animal, spirit, love from its origins to the twentieth century“, an accurate scientific research of a philological, glottological and philosophical nature aimed at tracing the path of words that have implications of a “spiritual” nature or that intend to express impalpable, abstract aspects or elevated states of consciousness of our human nature and beyond.
“The interest that gave rise to this research is aimed at the history of the words «soul, soul, animal» and their sister words «spirit, mind, heart, love». The path I followed starts from Giacomo Devoto’s Indo-European Origins and continues with a reference to recent philological and philosophical studies on the use of the terms animus, anima, mens in classical Latin.
In the history of the concepts of soul and spirit, a look at Christian Latin could not be missing, just as it was essential to refer to the texts of the New Testament in which the words, which in Italian sound like “soul, life, spirit” are used in a definitely significant.
Going back in time, I remembered, again with reference to these words, some poets of the Stil Novo, a passage from Dante’s Inferno, a minor work by Tasso and one by Leopardi.
Last but not least the subject of the present study is the presence of the words “soul, heart, life, love” in dialect poetic texts of the twentieth century, intended to be sung with musical accompaniment, or to be read and recited; The short collection also contains song lyrics in Italianto”.
ELYANGELA GIANNONI – born at the end of 1946 to parents from Elba, she lived in Marina di Campo, her mother’s town, until she was eighteen, with periodic stays in Rio Marina, her father’s town. She studied in Florence, graduating in Latin literature in 1971. She was a teacher of literary subjects in the lower secondary schools of Marciana Marina, Rio and Portoferraio, interrupting her service due to the serious illness of her husband, Sergio Brustolin, one of the opticians of Portoferraio, originally from province of Treviso, died in July 1993.
He has two daughters and three grandchildren: Daniel, Lorenzo and Sara.
In 2003, thanks to Gabriella Volpini, she joined Master Stace’s yoga group and practiced for about fifteen years, receiving great moral and spiritual, as well as physical, teaching.
She participated in initiatives to improve the conditions of abandoned animals together with Donatella Lorussi and Fulvia Della Santina, as collaborators in the activities of Andrea Tozzi and Francesca Vidonis. She currently lives on the outskirts of Portoferraio, in a peaceful and supportive human environment. You published with this publishing house the small essay entitled: Notes on the history and geography of the sacred, 2023.
Author – Elyangela Giannoni
Title – CONNECTION
Necklace – Complexity 20.
Sub-series – Eternal Harmony – Book IV
Cost €15.00
Isbn:9791281147324
