This book is the result of a charming multidisciplinary research entirely devoted to the heart, enquired in its double significance as a real organ, subject of medical studies and as an ideal image, a well-rooted symbol in the universal imaginary of man. The first part of the volume faces scientifical issues, like history of anatomy, physiology and pathology of heart; essays of famous heart specialists and historians of medicine are accompanied by anatomical models, drawings, photographs and illustrated plates making the contents well comprehensible by all the readers.
The second part of the book presents an analysis of symbolic meanings that have been attributed to the heart in the centuries in the philosophical, artistical and religious fields. The center of this section is a selection of contemporary art works on the subject of heart (about fifty works belonging, among the others, to
Dine, Parmiggiani, Schifano, Gilardi, Adami, Consagra, Dova, Arnaldo e Giò Pomodoro, Tadini and Fioroni) and an extraordinary selection of three-hundred-fifty ancient and modern heart-shaped objects (wacthes, jewels, boxes and recipients, lighters, sacred and profane lamps, pendants,picture-frames, reliquaries, photographs albums, ex voto, artifacts realized by nuns and young girls, instruments for embroidery and female works and ink-pots "pierced" by lovely pens)
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