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The body speaks Italian : Giuseppe Liceti and the conflict of philosophy and medicine in the Renaissance
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Muratori, Cecilia (2017) The body speaks Italian : Giuseppe Liceti and the conflict of philosophy and medicine in the Renaissance. Intellectual History Review, 27 (4). pp. 473-492. doi:10.1080/17496977.2017.1294848 ISSN 1749-6985.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2017.1294848
Abstract
Giuseppe Liceti (d. 1599) has been entirely forgotten in the history of philosophy. This article seeks to demonstrate that Liceti’s two vernacular dialogues are crucial sources for understanding the Renaissance debate on the conflict between medicine and philosophy. Liceti’s main dialogue, La nobiltà (1590), stages a contest about the nobility of the main bodily organs, which I discuss by placing it in its medical and literary context. I then proceed to expounding Liceti’s interpretation of the conflict between Galenism and Aristotelianism, and trace the specific topic of the seat of rationality in the body. In the conclusion I claim that the outcome of the contest in La nobiltà is not as obvious as it might seem, and that Liceti implies an alternative conclusion to the “official” one. This opens up a different scenario with regard to the interpretation of human uniqueness from medical and philosophical points of view.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medicine -- History -- 17th century, Liceti, Gioseppe, -approximately 1599 -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Intellectual History Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||
ISSN: | 1749-6985 | ||||||
Official Date: | 3 May 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 473-492 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17496977.2017.1294848 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | ** From Crossref via Jisc Publications Router. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 February 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 December 2018 | ||||||
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