Modern Italy 2010–2015

Healers and healing in early modern Italy

fool" or the wily "artificial fool" like Friedrich Taubmann who served as "merry counselor' to the electors of Saxony. Midelfort's discussion of court buffoons, like his closing chapters on pilgrims and hospital inmates, exploits little-known, or insufficiently utilized, archival and printed literature in ways that help overturn facile generalizations. 'Pilgrims in Search of Reason' mines mirac...

Korea- Italy Workshop on Membranes: A Long Relationship and Friendship between Korea and Italy

Changing the Face of Modern Medicine: Stem Cells & Gene Therapy, October 18–21, 2016, Florence, Italy

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a medical condition of the eye that results in blurred vision and/or a loss of central vision. The wet form of AMD – caused by abnormal blood vessel growth – is often treated using anti-VEGF medication. This approach can slow deterioration but is unable to treat the cause, or reverse the effects of, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) atrophy. A regenerati...

Charity and power in early modern Italy: benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541–1789

of important achievements becomes evident. Culpeper is described as an outstanding exponent of seventeenth-century medicine and one brave enough to question tradition. A problem arises with the author's fictional treatment of Culpeper's career. A brief biography was published by Culpeper's amanuensis William Ryves in 1659. Ryves tells the story of the elopement but stated there were reasons for...

"All that pertains to medicine": protomedici and protomedicati in early modern Italy.

In 1621 the vice-protomedico of the Papal States was arrested while inspecting an apothecary's shop and charged with committing financial irregularities in the course of his duties. Giacomo Giacobelli had received his doctorate in 1598 and, in addition to being physician at St John Lateran in Rome, was serving for the third time as vice-protomedico. As Giacobelli told the judges of the Apostoli...