TY  - GEN
N2  - "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.
DO  - 10.4159/harvard.9780674735668
DO  - doi
AB  - "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.
T1  - The prince's bodyVincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine /
DA  - 2015.
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts :
AU  - Finucci, Valeria.
CN  - Harvard University Press
CN  - DG975.M32
PB  - Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts :
PY  - 2015.
ID  - 728483
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Human body
KW  - Aging
KW  - Beauty, Personal
KW  - Human reproduction
KW  - Rejuvenation
SN  - 0674735668
SN  - 9780674735668
TI  - The prince's bodyVincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine /
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