Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; Introduction; A Life of Learning; Part I: Medicine, Commentaries and the Medieval Classroom; Chapter 1: Medicine in Some Thirteenth-Century Biblical Commentaries, with a Flashback on Augustineś De genesi ad litteram; 1.1 Ambrose of Milan and Augustine; 1.2 Robert Grosseteste and Bonaventure; 1.3 Albert and Thomas; 1.4 A Few Conclusive Words; Bibliography; Chapter 2: In a Montpellier Classroom; 2.1 Teaching at Montpellier; 2.2 At the Threshold of the Classroom; 2.3 Classroom Debates; 2.4 Through a Students Eyes

Appendix 1Appendix 2; Bibliography; Part II: Medicine, Writing History and the Republic of Letters; Chapter 3: Medicine as Queen: The Consilia of Bartolomeo da Montagnana; 3.1 A Famous Physician. Bartolomeo da Montagnana; 3.2 The Consilia Litterature; 3.3 The Evolution of the Italian Consilia; 3.4 The Consilia by Montagnana; 3.5 Epistemological Features; 3.6 A Sympathetic Phisician; Bibliography; Chapter 4: John Caius, Historian; Bibliography; Chapter 5: A Medical Man Among Ecclesiastical Historians: John Caius, Matthew Parker and the History of Cambridge University; Bibliography

Chapter 6: A Medical Collection Anatomized: The Catalogus bibliothecae Hieremiae Martii (1572)6.1 Martiusś Academic Career; 6.2 Guides to Medical Publications Up to 1572; 6.3 Martiusś Medical Collection Anatomised; 6.4 Geographical Distribution by Author and Place of Printing; Market Zones; 6.5 Conclusion: Martiusś iudicium in the Light of Contemporary Private Libraries; Bibliography; Part III: Medicine, Collections and Their Illustrations; Chapter 7: The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Late Renaissance Italy; 7.1 Becoming a Renaissance Naturalist

7.2 Creating a Garden in Pisa7.3 How to Publish Useful Information; 7.4 Fighting over Ghiniś Papers; 7.5 Ghiniś Posthumous Authority; Bibliography; Chapter 8: The Dedication Strategies of Conrad Gessner; 8.1 Dedicatio; 8.2 The Several Roles of Dedications; 8.3 Gessner, the Abundant Dedicator; 8.4 Gessnerś Bids for Major Patronage; 8.5 Gessner as Booster of Learned Printers; 8.6 Conclusion; Appendix 1: Gessnerś Publications and Dedications (Ordered by Date of Dedication); Bibliography; Chapter 9: Imagination, Maternal Desire and Embryology in Thomas Fienus; 9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Soul and the Body9.3 Imagination or Phantasia; 9.4 Maternal Desire and Imagination in Embryology: Imagination and Signs; 9.4.1 Conformative Power; 9.4.2 Imagination as the Director of Conformative Power; 9.5 Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Gerardus Blasius and the Illustrated Amsterdam Observationes from Nicolaas Tulp to Frederik Ruysch; 10.1 Illustrated Medical, Surgical, and Anatomical Observationes; 10.2 Gerardus Blasius and the Amsterdam Medical Scene; 10.3 Ruyschś Observationes and Museum; 10.4 Concluding Reflections