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Furnace and Fugue

Furnace & Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary, co-authored by Tara Nummedal, Associate Professor of History, and Donna Bilak of Columbia University, brings to life in digital form a multimedia seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book, Atalanta fugiens, of 1617. The publication consists of an enhanced digital edition of the early modern book, including newly commissioned vocal recordings of its fifty fugues as well as a critical anthology of media-rich interpretative essays.

 

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Status: Ongoing

Furnace and Fugue is a project of the Center for Digital Scholarship

Contributors to this project include Tara Nummedal (Brown University), Donna Bilak (Columbia University), Allison Levy (Mellon Editor, Library), Crystal Brusch (Designer), CDS staff, Library Digital Technologies staff.

Funding for this project comes the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation