The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice

ISBN-13: 9781032112046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Alessandra Celati

Opis

Extending beyond an individual case study to a granular and probing account of the many connections between Venetian physicians and heterodox religious movements in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, this innovative monograph reveals the heretical networks of physicians in sixteenth-century Venice.

Spis treści

Introduction / Becoming a heretic. Medical studies and religious dissent, 1513-1545 / Healing the body, healing the soul: Venice, 1546-1553 / The diaspora / Heterodox physicians in front of the Inquisition: Venice, 1560s-1570s / Donzellini’s return to the Republic of Venice, 1560-1587 / ‘The best physician is a philosopher’: the thought of Girolamo Donzellini / Conclusions. Beyond the frontiers of knowledge: networks and practices of dissent between science and faith

O autorze

Alessandra Celati has been a Marie Curie Global Fellow between Stanford University and the University of Verona. She works as a researcher in collaboration with the University of Verona.