Code
01CD1022
Duration
01 September 2022 → 31 January 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Early modern literature
- Literatures in Italian
- Rhetoric
- Stylistics and textual analysis
- Sociology of literary texts
Keywords
Italian Renaissance
Vernacular literature
Rhetoric
Books of secrets
History of medicine
Project description
This project aims at studying the rhetorical strategies and the use of vernacular in the 16th century books of secrets, a popular genre of medical Italian literature that spread throughout Europe. The research focuses on the collection of Secreti kept in the UGent Library and represents the first step of a broader project pursued by the Promoter.