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This chapter deals with early modern medicine as a “Scientia” against the background of the reception and repression of the Protestant Reformation in Italy. In particular, it examines the 1575 Venetian plague, by taking into account the personal and scientific experience of the heterodox physician working in the Republic, Girolamo Donzellini, a medical doctor and humanist in the sixteenth-century Respublica Medicorum.
During the pestilence, he was serving an Inquisition life sentence in prison. As a heterodox doctor, a prisoner and the author of a treatise on plague, he provides a good case-study. Thanks to the rare evidence provided by the minutes of Donzellini’s fourth trial in 1575/1576, this article describes what a prisoner doctor’s daily life was like in times of plague. Moreover it analyses the medical treatise that Donzellini wrote during his detention: the Discorso Nobilissimo e Dottissimo Preservativo et Curativo della Peste. By doing so this paper intends to provide fresh insights about the intersection among medical, religious and social aspects in the development of sixteenth-century Scientia. -
- Giovanni Silvano, Vittoria Feola. Foreword
- Notes on contributors
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- Fabio Zampieri. The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview
- Cynthia Klestinec. The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History
- Florike Egmond. Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context
- Alberto Zanatta. The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua
- Roberta Ballestriero. The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- R. Allen Shotwell. Between text and practice: the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Maria Kavvadia. Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- Alessandra Celati. The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague: between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Elisabeth Moreau. Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine: from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia: books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Luca Tonetti. Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Manuel De Carli. Tracing Senguerd's footprints: sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Pierdaniele Giaretta. Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
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