Code
01N04518
Duration
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Early modern history
- Early modern literature
- Literatures in Italian
- Rhetoric
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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.