TY  - JOUR
AU  - Henderson, John
AU  - Živković, Valentina
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/13962
AB  - This article, which examines contemporaries’ personal experience of illness in Renaissance
Italy, is part of a growing literature which concentrates on the patient rather
than the practitioner. The basis of this study is the correspondence of Pietro Bembo, the
well-known humanist, papal secretary and latterly Cardinal, with his cousin Gian Matteo
Bembo and his long-standing secretary and friend, Cola Bruno. These letters are revealing
of how a non-medical man understood and described illness in the sixteenth century, and
his personal experience associated particularly with “mal delle reni”, which he shared with
his friends and recommended treatments. It also reveals his attitude towards medical practitioners,
ranging from scepticism to fully embracing new therapies such as Holy Wood,
which was used to treat the new epidemic disease of the Great Pox. Indeed he shared
his enthusiasm for the efficacy of this drug with his great friend the physician Girolamo
Fracastoro, the author of Syphilis, the poem which he dedicated to Bembo, and also of the
treatise De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1546).
PB  - Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
T2  - Balcanica
T1  - Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle
SP  - 45
EP  - 62
VL  - 53
DO  - 10.2298/BALC2253045H
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13962
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Henderson, John and Živković, Valentina",
year = "2022",
abstract = "This article, which examines contemporaries’ personal experience of illness in Renaissance
Italy, is part of a growing literature which concentrates on the patient rather
than the practitioner. The basis of this study is the correspondence of Pietro Bembo, the
well-known humanist, papal secretary and latterly Cardinal, with his cousin Gian Matteo
Bembo and his long-standing secretary and friend, Cola Bruno. These letters are revealing
of how a non-medical man understood and described illness in the sixteenth century, and
his personal experience associated particularly with “mal delle reni”, which he shared with
his friends and recommended treatments. It also reveals his attitude towards medical practitioners,
ranging from scepticism to fully embracing new therapies such as Holy Wood,
which was used to treat the new epidemic disease of the Great Pox. Indeed he shared
his enthusiasm for the efficacy of this drug with his great friend the physician Girolamo
Fracastoro, the author of Syphilis, the poem which he dedicated to Bembo, and also of the
treatise De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1546).",
publisher = "Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA",
journal = "Balcanica",
title = "Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle",
pages = "45-62",
volume = "53",
doi = "10.2298/BALC2253045H",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13962"
}

Henderson, J.,& Živković, V.. (2022). Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle. in Balcanica
Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA., 53, 45-62.
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2253045H
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13962

Henderson J, Živković V. Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle. in Balcanica. 2022;53:45-62.
doi:10.2298/BALC2253045H
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13962 .

Henderson, John, Živković, Valentina, "Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle" in Balcanica, 53 (2022):45-62,
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC2253045H .,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13962 .