1st Edition
The World of Girolamo Donzellini A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Introduction
- Medicine, Reformation, and heterodoxy in the sixteenth century
- A network of dissident physicians
- Becoming a heretic. Medical studies and religious dissent, 1513-1545
- Healing the body, healing the soul: Venice, 1546-1553
- The diaspora
- Heterodox physicians in front of the Inquisition: Venice, 1560s-1570s
- Donzellini’s return to the Republic of Venice, 1560-1587
- ‘The best physician is a philosopher’: the thought of Girolamo Donzellini
- Conclusions. Beyond the frontiers of knowledge: networks and practices of dissent between science and faith
1.1 A family of dissidents
1.2 Patavina libertas
1.3 Medical career and the growth of a heretical mind: Rome
2.1 Venice, city of heretics
2.2 Women and the network
2.3 Books, doctrines, and practices: the growth of heresy in 1540s Venice
3.1 Italian physicians and religious migration
3.2 Exile physicians and their networks
3.3 Donzellini’s exile (1553-1560)
3.4 Donzellini’s On the Continuity of Doctrine since the Origin of the World
4.1 Venetian heretical networks in the Counter-Reformation: 1560-1575
4.2 Teofilo Panarelli and his sect: a secret sociality
4.3 Heresy and alchemy at the Frari pharmacy: Antonino Volpe and Decio Bellebuono
5.1 Venice-Verona, 1560-1573
5.2 Donzellini’s trials in the 1570s
5.3 Girolamo Donzellini in the Respublica medicorum
5.4 The epilogue
6.1 Collaboration with the empiric Bovio: was Donzellini a Paracelsian?
6.2 The Remedium ferendarum iniuriarum between Neoplatonism and radicalism
6.3 ‘Medicus non tantum corporum, sed etiam animorum sit curator’
Biography
Alessandra Celati has been a Marie Curie Global Fellow between Stanford University and the University of Verona. She works as a researcher in collaboration with the University of Verona.
