Review article

BACCIO BALDINI (1517-1589), PROTOMEDICUS ON THE MEDICAL COURT BETWEEN HUMANISM AND EXPERIMENTALISM

Silvia Marinozzi orcid.org/0000-0002-4571-343X ; History of Medicine and Bioethics, “Sapienta” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Valentina Giuffra orcid.org/0000-0001-9108-039X ; Department of Transplantational research on New Technologies in medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Fanny Kieffer ; Department of Art History, University François Rabelais of Tours, Tours, France

Abstract

The article aims to shed light on some particular aspects of the activity and the scientific thought of Baccio Baldini, Director of the Laurentian Library and Court physician of the Medici family in Florence. The analysis of his work as a humanist and the recovery of some unpublished documents enable to define the figure of Baldini as a paradigmatic example of the court physicians of modern age in Italy, highlighting the complementarity between
humanism and experimentalism in the Renaissance medicine.

Keywords

Baccio Baldini; history of Renaissance medicine; experimentalism and hippocratic tradition

Hrčak ID:

152052

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152052

Publication date:

15.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: italian

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