Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, sonst ein tadelloses Exemplar / dust jacket slightly rubbed, otherwise a pristine copy. - 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. By examining ways in which the Canon was used, the author traces changing approaches to traditional texts, translations, and authorities under the impact of such developments as humanism, philosophical eclecticism, printing, and scientific innovation in anatomy and other fields. Editions of and commentaries on the Canon demonstrate the continuing importance in this period of teaching by commentary, but they also show that even the most conservative aspects of Renaissance scientific education were penetrated by current ideas and controversies. / Contents Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Part I The Canon as a Latin Medical Book 1. 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 1.1 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, Illustrations follow page. ISBN 9780691051376