1591 CORTUSO, Giacomo Antonio (Cortusi) (1513 – )
L'horto dei semplici di Padova, oue si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue misure: & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intagliato in rame.
First catalogue of the Orto botanico di Padova, the oldest academic botanical garden that remains in its original location., Digital facsimile from fc.cab.unipd.it at this link.
GMN 13351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15622
1694 ARRIETA, Filippo de
Raguaglio historico del contaggio occorso nella provincia di Bari negli anni 1690, 1691 e 1692.
Arrieta published two very early disease maps in this work showing locations of plague in the province of Bari, Italy, and his employment of troops to isolate those areas. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…
GMN 10455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12648
1766 –1767 SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721 – 1771)
Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particularly description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: to which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9537
1766 SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721 – 1771)
Travels through France and Italy. Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice: To which is added a register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. "After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled acro…
GMN 12496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14729
1781 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A view of society and manners in Italy, with anecdotes related to some eminent characters. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14728
1825 BELL, John (1763 – 1820)
Observations on Italy.
Digital facsimile of the 1825 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. The second, posthumous, edition published in English in Naples by Fibreno in 1834 includes additional chapters by Bell that were not includ…
GMN 7320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9490
1844 MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855); JAMES, Constantin (1813 – 1888)
Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 11666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13867
1845 –1848 RENZI, Salvatore de (1801 – 1871)
Storia della medicina italiana. 5 vols.
Reprinted Bologna, 1966.
GMN 6561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8248
1854 ROGER OF SALERNO, (Rogerius Salernitanus, Frugard, Frugardi, Roggerio Frugardo, Rüdiger Frutgard, Roger of Parma) (1140 – 1195); DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)
Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit
In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…
GMN 5551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6850
1857 MEDICI, Michele (1782 – 1859)
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11032
1890 MOSSO, Angelo (1846 – 1910)
Les lois de la fatigue étudiées dans les muscles de l’homme.
Mosso invented the ergograph from the study of voluntary contraction. The description of the instrument is on pages 124-41 of the above article.
GMN 636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/516
1896 PITRÈ, Giuseppe (1842 – 1916)
Medicina popolare siciliana.
English translation, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1971.
GMN 6562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8249
1923 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10729
1925 –1928 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
Profili bio-bibliografici di medici naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. 2 vols.
GMN 6725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7845
1927 CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
Storia della medicina.
This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…
GMN 6418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8410
1932 CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
Italian medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar.
Clio Medica series.
GMN 6563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8251
1933 VLANA, Odorico (1877 – 1942); VOZZA, Francesco
L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.
GMN 6300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8042
1934 CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.
GMN 6564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8253
1936 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947); ALFANUS I, (Alfano I) ( – 1085)
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
GMN 8551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10728
1939 PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)
Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.
Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.
GMN 6565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8261
1953 RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.
Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…
GMN 10504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12697
1956 BECCARIA, Augusto
I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).
GMN 8346 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10522
1972 MAURUS OF SALERNO, Maurus Salernitanus) (1130 – ); SAFFRON, Morris Harold (1905 – 1993)
Maurus of Salerno, twelfth-century "optimus physicus" with his commentary on the prognostics of Hippocrates, now first transcribed from manuscript and translated into English by Morris Harold Saffron. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. Vol. 62, pt. 1).
GMN 8354 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10530
1975 MAJNO, Guido (1922 – 2010)
The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.
Emphasizing surgery, this is an exceptionally imaginative and exquisitely designed and illustrated history of medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China.
GMN 5813.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6961
1981 SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )
Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.
GMN 6524.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8107
1984 PERUTA, Franco Della (1924 – 2012)
Storia d’ltalia. Vol. 7: Malattia e medicina.
A collective work, edited by della Peruta.
GMN 6565.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8262
1985 PARK, Katharine
Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.
GMN 11949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14154
1986 KRISTELLER, Paul Oskar (1905 – 1999)
Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.
GMN 8549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10726
1986 CARMICHAEL, Anne G.
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.
"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…
GMN 11851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14055
1987 SIRAISI, Nancy G. (1932 – )
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.
GMN 6565.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8264
1988 BERNABEO, Raffaele A.; D'ANTUONO, Giuseppe
La scuola medica di Bologna: Settecento anni di storia. Edited by Raffaele A. Bernabeo and Giuseppe D'Antuono.
GMN 8635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10812
1995 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
GMN 8703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10881
1996 MINELLI, Allesandro (1948 – )
The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.
GMN 8717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10895
1998 GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
GMN 12779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15025
2003 PATRIARCA, Silvana
Numbers and nationhood: Writing statistics in nineteenth-century Italy.
GMN 12137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14346
2004 OLMI, Giuseppe
Rappresentare il corpo: Art e anatomia da Leonardo all'illuminismo.
Extensive book (324 pages, many color plates) issued in connection with an exhibition held in Bologna, December 2004 to March 2005, celebrating the fourth centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi. A much-condensed guide to the …
GMN 10560 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12753
2006 GENTILCORE, David (1961 – )
Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy.
GMN 8046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10222
2007 GREEN, Monica Helen; JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – ); BAGLIANI, Agostino Paravicini; TROTA OF SALERNO, (Trotula) (1150 – )
La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.
Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collectio Salernitan…
GMN 8556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10733
2010 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
GMN 8704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10882
2014 LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720); DONATO, Maria Pia
Sudden death: Medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome.
"In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as…
GMN 9845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12033
2017 DACOME, Lucia
Malleable anatomies: Models, makers, and material culture in eighteenth-century Italy.
"Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modeling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates the "mania" for anatomical displays that swept the Italian peninsula, …
GMN 9882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12070
2020 MARCUS, Hannah
Forbidden knowledge: Medicine, science, and censorship in early modern Italy.
GMN 13092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15344
