VivaMente Grantees
The VivaMente Grant aims at providing early career scholars with an opportunity to realise their projects and expand their networks
The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered
This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean.
Paduan Physicians and Heretics
The case study presented will challenge current views by presenting disturbing evidence of foreign London residents having to join English
Persuasive Arguments in Galen’s Physiology
In this lecture I will explore these questions on the basis of two specific examples: the discussion about the use
The Thereputic Virtues of Jasmine
Jasmine, widely used and praised in the East, was one of the many substances introduced to the Italian peninsula for
Landascape Drawing, Anthopomorphism and the Female Body in Renaissance Switzerland
This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine.
Santorio Fellows
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The Universe on Paper. The Art of Linda Karshan
The exhibition will display a fine selection of drawings produced by distinguished artist Linda Karshan (Minneapolis, 1947) over various periods
Sweat it Out!
This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine. Thanks to Santorio Santori’s famous studies with
Imagining and Experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Florence
Building on the approaches and findings of recent studies of early modern England, Germany and Spain, this lecture will compare the