Medical culture of “the Spaniards of Italy” in the Renaissance. Scientific communication, learned practices and medicine in the correspondence of Juan Páez de Castro (1545-1552)

Elisa Andretta (1)

1 UNIGE - Université de Genève = University of Geneva

Examining the Italian experiences recounted by a Spanish humanist within the context of other peregrinationes (pilgrimages or journeys) that men of science and letters from Spain undertook in Italy, the article elucidates the cultural and scientific exchanges between the two peninsulas. Furthermore, it permits a clearer understanding of: the forms that scientific knowledge took; the channels by which this knowledge circulated between Spain and Italy; and the consequences of this circulation at a moment in European history when the interactions among medical cultures, other forms of cultural production, and politics were particularly important.

Domaines: Histoire; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Elisa Andretta. Medical culture of “the Spaniards of Italy” in the Renaissance. Scientific communication, learned practices and medicine in the correspondence of Juan Páez de Castro (1545-1552). Medical Cultures in the Early Modern Spanish Empire, Ashgate, pp.129-145, 2014, New Hispanism: cultural and literary studies, 978-1-4724-2813-4. ⟨halshs-01293069⟩