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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 especi



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine, pg. 3*2. The Canon of Avicenna, pg. 19*3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna, pg. 43*4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500, pg. 77*5. Renaissance Editions, pg. 127*6. Commentators and Commentaries, pg. 175*7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu, pg. 221*8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology, pg. 294*Conclusion, pg. 353*Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500, pg. 359*Selected Bibliography, pg. 377*Index, pg. 397

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities After 1500 789 Princeton Legacy Library

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/14/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691609492, 978-0691609492
      ISBN10: 0691609497

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 especi



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine, pg. 3*2. The Canon of Avicenna, pg. 19*3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna, pg. 43*4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500, pg. 77*5. Renaissance Editions, pg. 127*6. Commentators and Commentaries, pg. 175*7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu, pg. 221*8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology, pg. 294*Conclusion, pg. 353*Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500, pg. 359*Selected Bibliography, pg. 377*Index, pg. 397

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