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Project

Revealing Secrets: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Italian Renaissance Literature (ca. 1550-1600)

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01N04518

Duration

01 January 2018 → 31 December 2024

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Teodoro Katinis

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Early modern history
- Early modern literature
- Literatures in Italian
- Rhetoric
Medical and health sciences
- History of medicine

Keywords

Italian Renaissance books of secrets history of medicine rhetoric vernacular literature

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 Ghent University Library and represents the first step of a broader project pursued by the Promoter.

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