Avicenna in Renaissance Italy : : The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500 / / Nancy G. Siraisi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Siraisi, Nancy G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 789
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I. The Canon as a Latin Medical Book -- I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine -- 2. The Canon of Avicenna -- Part II. The Canon in the Schools -- 3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna -- 4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500 -- Part III. The Canon and its Renaissance Editors, Translators, and Commentators -- 5. Renaissance Editions -- 6. Commentators and Commentaries -- Part IV. Canon Ι. Ι and the Teaching of Medical Theory at Padua and Bologna -- 7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu -- 8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology -- Conclusion -- Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index