The prince's body [electronic resource] : Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine / Valeria Finucci.
2015
DG975.M32 F46 2015eb
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Title
The prince's body [electronic resource] : Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine / Valeria Finucci.
Author
Finucci, Valeria.
ISBN
0674735668 electronic book
9780674735668 electronic book
9780674735668 electronic book
Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/harvard.9780674735668 doi
Call Number
DG975.M32 F46 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
610.945
Summary
"This book is part of the current debate among historians of medicine, cultural studies theorists, gender and sexuality scholars, and literary critics regarding key interrelated preoccupations of the early modern period (or indeed of any period): sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. The author uses as her guide four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua (1562-1612), a well-known patron of arts and music in Renaissance Italy. By examining documents in the Gonzaga and Medici archives--letters, doctors' advice, reports, receipts, travelogues--together with (and against) medical, herbal, theological, even legal publications of the period, she fleshes out an early modern cultural history of the pathology of human reproduction, the physiology of aging, and the science of rejuvenation as they impacted a prince with a large ego and an even larger purse. The questions addressed are wide-ranging: How did the discovery of new body parts translate into political empowerment? What specific physiological issues impacted couples' reproductive agendas? When did the worshipping of beauty motivate radical experimentations with aesthetic surgery?"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history ; 15.
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Table of Contents
The prince's body
The virgin cure : manual exams and early modern surgeons
The aesthetic cure : skin disease, noses, and the invention of plastic surgery
The comfort cure : managing pain and catarrh at the spa
The sexual cure : searching for a Viagra in the New World
Epilogue: Unwrapping the body.
The virgin cure : manual exams and early modern surgeons
The aesthetic cure : skin disease, noses, and the invention of plastic surgery
The comfort cure : managing pain and catarrh at the spa
The sexual cure : searching for a Viagra in the New World
Epilogue: Unwrapping the body.