| Our community gets global in scope as the University of Yale joins the CSMBR as a fourth Funding Institution, along with the University of Exeter (UK), the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (Germany) and the Studio Firmano for the History of Medicine and Science (Italy). We are delighted that one of the world's leading universities has recognised the quality of our events and decided to support our efforts to sustain the best scholarship worldwide. Prof. Ivano Dal Prete will be seating on the Governing Board as a representative of the University and we look forward to working closely together with him and all our partners to widen our network and reach new goals. |
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Along with new partners, new fellows have joined the centre or have been promoted to more important roles: welcome to the CSMBR community! |
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| Delegate of Yale University |
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| Measuring the Intensity of Diseases |
New Notes & Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments
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Webinar: 18 January 2023 - 6 Pm (CET) |
In this lecture, Fabrizio Bigotti focuses on one of the latest examples of commentaries on Galen's "Ars medica", written by Santorio Santori in 1612. He then moves on to analyse how the question of intensity is taken over by Santorio, and how he developed and transformed it into the preoperational theory which sustained the invention of early modern precision instruments. |
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| Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period |
The Mesentery in Montaigne and Descartes |
Webinar: 8 February 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
In the medical and philosophical texts from the early modern period, one can notice a huge interest in melancholy, the ‘fashionable’ evil of that time, confining great minds to sadness and depression. We find this discussion also in the writings of Montaigne and Descartes.
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| Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical Wolrd |
Venoms in Roman Legal and Rhetorical Treatises |
Webinar: 21 February 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Building on the latest research findings, this paper proposes to further explore the dialectic between, and parallel development of, forensic rhetoric and Roman law in the 1st century CE with regard to the criminalisation of poisoning. |
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| Intensity and the Grades of Nature |
Heat, Colour and Sound in the Ordering of the Pre-Modern Cosmos 1200-1600 |
Hybrid Event: 11-14 July 2023 |
This summer school will explore how heat, colour, and sound have been used, conceptualised and graded in the pre-modern cosmos shaping both disciplines of knowledge and everyday life. | |
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Santorio Global Fellowship |
The new fellowship encourages the mobility of scholars across Europe and the US. Fundings are allocated to PhD Students to spend two to four months at a CSMBR funding institution. The scheme is provisionally open to members of the CSMBR funding institutions only. |
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Under this scheme € 3,000 plus the free usage of the Domus Comeliana (worth an additional €2,500 per day) will be awarded to the best proposals for a max. 2-day event to be held in Pisa. |
Five Santorio Fellowships, worth €500 each, will be offered throughout as a gratuity to join the 2023 CSMBR Summer School by means of an application process. |
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| | Sweat It Out! Insensible Perspiration in the Eighteenth Century |
Ruben Verwaal argues that perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in 18th-century medicine with Dutch physicians paying particular attention to the role of microscopic structures. |
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| The War of Torments. Imagining and Experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Florence |
In this lecture, Prof. John Henderson analyses how the Great Pox was imagined, received and experienced in Renaissance Italy. |
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| The Universe on Paper: Interview |
Nearing the conclusion of the international conference and exhibition "The Universe on Paper: The Art of Linda Karshan", Fabrizio Bigotti, director of the CSMBR, interviews the artist and the curator of the exhibition. |
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Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220-1292 |
Meagan Allen Santorio Award 2022 |
| | The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish |
Justin Begley & Benjamin Goldberg |
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Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, 1614-1790 |
Jonathan Barry & Fabrizio Bigotti |
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FORMA FLUENS: Histories of the Microcosm |
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Drinking Water Cures and the Body in 17th-Century Tuscany |
Today, visitors to Tuscany know the importance of drinking water to stave off dehydration during the hot and humid days of summer. What might be less known is that some visitors in the seventeenth century went to Tuscany specifically to drink water—the natural mineral water available at the many springs dotting the countryside. |
| Who Wants to Live for Ever? |
Bacon believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of the universities, but in the study of alchemy. But what exactly was it about alchemy that made it so vital to medical practice? |
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© Arbor: Knowledge That Grows CSMBR Newsletter Cover image: Teophrastus, 'Historia plantarum' XIV Century, Ms 459, f. 225r (detail) Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome |
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Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR)
Domvs Comeliana, Via Pietro Maffi 48 56126 Pisa, Italy info@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org |
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