The professor of secrets
Subtitle: mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy
By: William Eamon
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781426206504
Subjects: Physicians; History, 16th Century; Renaissance; Alchemy; Medicine; History of Medicine; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Experience and memory; title: Mia dolce patria; title: The empire of disease; title: Medical Bologna; title: Leonardo and the anatomists; title: The education of a surgeon; title: The road of experience; title: The carnival doctor; title: The new Asclepius; title: The marvelous virtues of Precipitato; title: Charlatan or wonder worker?; title: An ingenious surgery; title: The marvels of Naples; title: An academy of magi; title: The university of war; title: The cardinal's house; title: A surgeon in Rome; title: A road not taken; title: Venetian curiosities; title: The lure of the charlatan; title: A writer for the age; title: Venice's scientific underworld; title: Mathematical magic; title: The search for the philosopher's stone; title: A star is born; title: The medical entrepreneur; title: Ambition and glory; title: A conspiracy of doctors; title: Leonardo the chameleon; title: Life and art; title: In the court of the Catholic king; title: Masters of fire; title: The charlatan's trial; title: "Il mio sacco è vuoto"; title: The judgment of history; title: Epilogue: Traces.