Giovan Battista Codronchi’s De morbis Veneficis ac Veneficiis (1595). Medicine, Exorcism and Inquisition in Counter-Reformation Italy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20249585
AutoresFabiana Ambrosi (Sapienza University of Rome, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen10
Número11
Páginas612
Fecha de publicación2019-11-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel10110612
OpenAlexW2987622123
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas30

The physician Giovan Battista Codronchi (1547–1628) is a key figure of sixteenth-century medicine. A study of his main work De morbis veneficis ac veneficiis (1595) and his letters sent to the Congregation of the Index in Rome (1597) can teach us much about the interrelation between medicine and religion in Counter-Reformation Italy. Using Codronchi as a prism, this article uncovers a complex picture in which themes such as the production of demonological texts at the height of the European witch-hunt, the related debate about the roles of physicians and exorcists, and the influence of physicians on the development of the Index of Forbidden Books are interrelated

Archaeology · Art · Counter-Reformation · Demonology · Exorcism · Literature · Witch · Classics · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Medicine Studies · History of Science and Medicine