Experiencing Disease and Medical Treatment in Renaissance Italy: Cardinal Pietro Bembo and his Circle
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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 auth...or of Syphilis, the poem which he dedicated to Bembo, and also of the
treatise De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1546).
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Pietro Bembo / personal experience of illness / Renaissance / ItalyИзвор:
Balcanica, 2022, 53, 45-62Издавач:
- Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
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Балканолошки институт САНУ / Institute for Balkan Studies SASATY - 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 -
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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 .