David Gentilcore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1167141 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Gentilcore |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Gentilcore |
| ASSINATURA | GENTILCORE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6035-3129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Waterwheels of Lizzafusina
This article explores the reliance of watermen ( acquaroli ) in early modern Venice on increasingly sophisticated waterwheels, designed, produced, and patented by competing inventors during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, to load fresh water supplies that supplemented the rainwater on which the city otherwise depended for its freshwater needs. Using a range of archival and printed sources, this article examines the tools that deliv…
In Praise of the Ordinary
This article is conceived as a contribution to our increasing appreciation of the importance of water for drinking purposes in early modern culture. By analyzing the medical recommendations contained in the case histories and consultations of three prominent Italian doctors—Epifanio Ferdinando, Francesco Redi, and Francesco Torti—it provides evidence of shifting medical knowledge and practice in the use of drinking water. It traces how, as the me…
The cistern-system of early modern Venice
At a time when European cities depended on three sources of fresh water for their domestic and industrial needs—rivers, spring-fed aqueducts and groundwater wells—early modern Venice added a fourth possibility: a dense network of cisterns for capturing, filtering and storing rainwater. Venice was not unique in relying on rainwater cisterns; but nowhere in Italy (indeed in Europe) was the approach so systematic and widespread, the city concerned s…
Cool and tasty waters”
Although Naples was one of Europe’s largest cities (after London and Paris), studies of the management of its water supply during the early modern period are sorely lacking, despite growing interest in the subject at both an Italian and European level. Naples was perhaps unique in relying on a vast and tortuous underground network of reservoirs, cisterns, channels and conduits, accessed by well shafts, all fed by an ancient aqueduct. The present …
From ‘Vilest Beverage’ to ‘Universal Medicine’
Historians tend to assume that in pre-modern Europe people avoided the water, as too unsafe, risky and generally unhealthy to drink. This assumption is clearly flawed: early modern Europeans knew, through experience, which waters were ‘best’ and to take certain precautions when it came to the consumption of water. Town councils enacted legislation to ensure water quality as well as more pro-active measures to keep water sources clean. Extensive a…
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Il segreto di san Gennaro
Few Catholic relics are more linked to a single city than the blood relic of St. Januarius (San Gennaro) is to Naples. Housed in a silver and crystal reliquary through which it is just visible, the blood, normally solid, is seen to liquefy twice a year, on the two feasts of the saint. As the most important relic of the city’s protector, it has accompanied Neapolitans in procession and feast-day ceremony, through thick and thin, plague and famine,…
Louis Sambon and the Clash of Pellagra Etiologies in Italy and the United States, 1905–14
This article explores the extent to which the bacterial concept of disease acted as an obstacle to the understanding of deficiency diseases, by focusing on explorations into the cause of pellagra in the early twentieth century. In 1900, pellagra had been epidemic in Italy for 150 years and was soon to become so in the United States, yet the responses of medical investigators differed substantially. To account for these, the article reconstructs t…
John A Marino, Becoming Neapolitan
Medicine and society in early modern Europe – By May Lindemann
Vulgariser la Médecine
Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret, eds. Vulgariser la Médecine: Du Style Médical en France et en Italie. Cahiers d'humanisme et de Renaissance 89. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 349 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–2–600–01263–8. - Volume 63 Issue 1
The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (review)
Reviewed by: The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy David Gentilcore Douglas Biow. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xix + 244 pp. Ill. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8014-4481-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4481-4). You want to praise a scholarly colleague. So you describe her or him as affable, sincere, brilliant, well-spoken, learned, modest, considerate, and clean. Clean? This last adjective s…
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750
Dr Katritzky has done more than any other scholar in recent years to explore the link between women, the stage and medicine during the early modern period. Her numerous articles over the last ten years have been remarkable for the sheer amount of detail provided, the vivid illustrations unearthed, the wide range of sources explored, especially literary, and a broad-minded, interdisciplinary approach. Rooted in the history of performance and drama…
Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine
The ‘Golden Age of Quackery’ or ‘Medical Enlightenment’? Licensed Charlatanism in Eighteenth-Century Italy
The history of medicine during the enlightenment is full of paradoxes, and nowhere is this more evident than in the phenomenon of charlatanry. On the one hand, for the charlatans' numerical abundance and sheer audacity, historians have sometimes singled out the eighteenth century as the ‘golden age of quackery’. At the same time, it was one of increasing control and severity by the medical elites.In Italy, from the mid-sixteenth century, protomed…
Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition
Timothy Walker, Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment , Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Pp. xviii+438. €139. ISBN 9004143459. Life was not easy for magical healers in eighteenth-century Portugal. If they were denounced to the Inquisition, usually by a member of the social elite, they faced uncertainty and waiting whilst the accusation was investigated. This was followed …
Was there a “popular medicine” in early modern Europe
This article considers the current trend to "problematise" popular culture, and with it the category "popular medicine" as established in the "popular errors" literature of the early modern period, and maintained in the modern era by folklorist‐doctors such as Guiseppe Pitrè. Recent social historians of medicine have been increasingly dismissive of notions of a separate, usually magical "popular medicine," instead offering models of diffusion of …
Books of the Body
"Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, by Andrea Carlino." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 336–337
The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti. Saul Jarcho
The Disordered Body
Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
Figurations and State Authority in Early Modern Italy
In 1559 Siena became part of the Tuscan Grand Ducy, but it retained its own institutional, administrative, and legal structures, and this included the College of Doctors of Philosophy and Medicine. Responsible for granting degrees, the college acquired the authority to examine, approve and license all those practising, or wishing to practise, the healing arts. It also assumed the right to try offences such as non-payment for treatment and unlicen…
Charlatans, mountebanks and other similar people’
Much despised and satirised, but rarely understood, the figure of the wandering, theatrical, remedy-selling charlatan was nevertheless quite real in early modern Europe. Fortunately for the historian, the records of the Italian medical colleges are rich in information about them, as a result of the licensing procedure charlatans had to undergo in order to sell their medicines. These records allow us to explore the activities of real charlatans, o…
From Bishop to Witch
This work explores "the system of the sacred" in early modern Terra d'Otranto, a province in the south east corner of the Kingdom of Naples. It aims to determine how far the people of the area participated in Christian civilization and how far they were subject to magical beliefs and "southern Italian religiosity". The book looks at levels of culture in the region and in the broader context of the social history of the counter-Reformation in Ital…
Contesting Illness in Early Modern Naples
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illnesses? How did they manage their encounters with the whole range of healers that existed in a time of medical pluralism? The early modern body was a battleground for differing interpretations of disease: natural, divine and diabolical. Miracle cures exemplify this ambivalence. They represent a useful focus for study because with them ‘the body finds…
Was there a “popular medicine” in early modern Europe
This article considers the current trend to "problematise" popular culture, and with it the category "popular medicine" as established in the "popular errors" literature of the early modern period, and maintained in the modern era by folklorist‐doctors such as Guiseppe Pitrè. Recent social historians of medicine have been increasingly dismissive of notions of a separate, usually magical "popular medicine," instead offering models of diffusion of …
From ‘Vilest Beverage’ to ‘Universal Medicine’
Historians tend to assume that in pre-modern Europe people avoided the water, as too unsafe, risky and generally unhealthy to drink. This assumption is clearly flawed: early modern Europeans knew, through experience, which waters were ‘best’ and to take certain precautions when it came to the consumption of water. Town councils enacted legislation to ensure water quality as well as more pro-active measures to keep water sources clean. Extensive a…
Adapt Yourselves to the People's Capabilities’
At a time when European missionaries were active in the New World to capture the souls of the ‘heathen’ for Catholicism, their confrères were conducting missions throughout Europe itself. For more than two centuries these missions – variously known as internal, parish or popular – were a crucial aspect of religious life, with numerous religious orders and congregations seeking to weave a fabric of evangelisation and catechetical instruction in ar…
Contesting Illness in Early Modern Naples
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illnesses? How did they manage their encounters with the whole range of healers that existed in a time of medical pluralism? The early modern body was a battleground for differing interpretations of disease: natural, divine and diabolical. Miracle cures exemplify this ambivalence. They represent a useful focus for study because with them ‘the body finds…
The cistern-system of early modern Venice
At a time when European cities depended on three sources of fresh water for their domestic and industrial needs—rivers, spring-fed aqueducts and groundwater wells—early modern Venice added a fourth possibility: a dense network of cisterns for capturing, filtering and storing rainwater. Venice was not unique in relying on rainwater cisterns; but nowhere in Italy (indeed in Europe) was the approach so systematic and widespread, the city concerned s…
Cool and tasty waters”
Although Naples was one of Europe’s largest cities (after London and Paris), studies of the management of its water supply during the early modern period are sorely lacking, despite growing interest in the subject at both an Italian and European level. Naples was perhaps unique in relying on a vast and tortuous underground network of reservoirs, cisterns, channels and conduits, accessed by well shafts, all fed by an ancient aqueduct. The present …
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750
Dr Katritzky has done more than any other scholar in recent years to explore the link between women, the stage and medicine during the early modern period. Her numerous articles over the last ten years have been remarkable for the sheer amount of detail provided, the vivid illustrations unearthed, the wide range of sources explored, especially literary, and a broad-minded, interdisciplinary approach. Rooted in the history of performance and drama…
Charlatans, mountebanks and other similar people’
Much despised and satirised, but rarely understood, the figure of the wandering, theatrical, remedy-selling charlatan was nevertheless quite real in early modern Europe. Fortunately for the historian, the records of the Italian medical colleges are rich in information about them, as a result of the licensing procedure charlatans had to undergo in order to sell their medicines. These records allow us to explore the activities of real charlatans, o…
Methods and approaches in the social history of the Counter‐Reformation in Italy∗
Bread of Dreams
Preface by Roy Porter. Introduction. 1. The 'Disease of Wretchedness'. 2. Elusive Bread. 3. Sacred and Profane Cannibalism. 4.'They Set Out into the World of the Vagabond'. 5. 'They Rotted in Their Own Dung'. 6. The World Turned Upside Down. 7. 'Famine of Living' and 'Times of Suspicion'. 8. Night-time. 9. Ritual Battles and Popular Frenzies. 10. Medicina Pauperum. . 11. 'Tightness of Purse'. 12. Collective Vertigo. 13. Hyperbolic Dreams. 14. Art…
Bread of Dreams
Preface by Roy Porter. Introduction. 1. The 'Disease of Wretchedness'. 2. Elusive Bread. 3. Sacred and Profane Cannibalism. 4.'They Set Out into the World of the Vagabond'. 5. 'They Rotted in Their Own Dung'. 6. The World Turned Upside Down. 7. 'Famine of Living' and 'Times of Suspicion'. 8. Night-time. 9. Ritual Battles and Popular Frenzies. 10. Medicina Pauperum. . 11. 'Tightness of Purse'. 12. Collective Vertigo. 13. Hyperbolic Dreams. 14. Art…
Short Notices
Methods and approaches in the social history of the Counter‐Reformation in Italy∗
Galileo courtier
The Psychology of a Saint
Adapt Yourselves to the People's Capabilities’
At a time when European missionaries were active in the New World to capture the souls of the ‘heathen’ for Catholicism, their confrères were conducting missions throughout Europe itself. For more than two centuries these missions – variously known as internal, parish or popular – were a crucial aspect of religious life, with numerous religious orders and congregations seeking to weave a fabric of evangelisation and catechetical instruction in ar…
Charlatans, mountebanks and other similar people’
Much despised and satirised, but rarely understood, the figure of the wandering, theatrical, remedy-selling charlatan was nevertheless quite real in early modern Europe. Fortunately for the historian, the records of the Italian medical colleges are rich in information about them, as a result of the licensing procedure charlatans had to undergo in order to sell their medicines. These records allow us to explore the activities of real charlatans, o…
From Bishop to Witch
This work explores "the system of the sacred" in early modern Terra d'Otranto, a province in the south east corner of the Kingdom of Naples. It aims to determine how far the people of the area participated in Christian civilization and how far they were subject to magical beliefs and "southern Italian religiosity". The book looks at levels of culture in the region and in the broader context of the social history of the counter-Reformation in Ital…
Contesting Illness in Early Modern Naples
How did ordinary early modern Europeans regard health and sickness? How did they explain their illnesses? How did they manage their encounters with the whole range of healers that existed in a time of medical pluralism? The early modern body was a battleground for differing interpretations of disease: natural, divine and diabolical. Miracle cures exemplify this ambivalence. They represent a useful focus for study because with them ‘the body finds…
Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
Figurations and State Authority in Early Modern Italy
In 1559 Siena became part of the Tuscan Grand Ducy, but it retained its own institutional, administrative, and legal structures, and this included the College of Doctors of Philosophy and Medicine. Responsible for granting degrees, the college acquired the authority to examine, approve and license all those practising, or wishing to practise, the healing arts. It also assumed the right to try offences such as non-payment for treatment and unlicen…
The Disordered Body
Books of the Body
"Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, by Andrea Carlino." Canadian Journal of History, 36(2), pp. 336–337
The Clinical Consultations of Francesco Torti. Saul Jarcho
Was there a “popular medicine” in early modern Europe
This article considers the current trend to "problematise" popular culture, and with it the category "popular medicine" as established in the "popular errors" literature of the early modern period, and maintained in the modern era by folklorist‐doctors such as Guiseppe Pitrè. Recent social historians of medicine have been increasingly dismissive of notions of a separate, usually magical "popular medicine," instead offering models of diffusion of …
The ‘Golden Age of Quackery’ or ‘Medical Enlightenment’? Licensed Charlatanism in Eighteenth-Century Italy
The history of medicine during the enlightenment is full of paradoxes, and nowhere is this more evident than in the phenomenon of charlatanry. On the one hand, for the charlatans' numerical abundance and sheer audacity, historians have sometimes singled out the eighteenth century as the ‘golden age of quackery’. At the same time, it was one of increasing control and severity by the medical elites.In Italy, from the mid-sixteenth century, protomed…
Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition
Timothy Walker, Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment , Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Pp. xviii+438. €139. ISBN 9004143459. Life was not easy for magical healers in eighteenth-century Portugal. If they were denounced to the Inquisition, usually by a member of the social elite, they faced uncertainty and waiting whilst the accusation was investigated. This was followed …
Spaces, objects and identities in early modern Italian medicine
The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (review)
Reviewed by: The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy David Gentilcore Douglas Biow. The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xix + 244 pp. Ill. $35.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8014-4481-0; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4481-4). You want to praise a scholarly colleague. So you describe her or him as affable, sincere, brilliant, well-spoken, learned, modest, considerate, and clean. Clean? This last adjective s…
Women, Medicine and Theatre, 1500-1750
Dr Katritzky has done more than any other scholar in recent years to explore the link between women, the stage and medicine during the early modern period. Her numerous articles over the last ten years have been remarkable for the sheer amount of detail provided, the vivid illustrations unearthed, the wide range of sources explored, especially literary, and a broad-minded, interdisciplinary approach. Rooted in the history of performance and drama…
Vulgariser la Médecine
Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret, eds. Vulgariser la Médecine: Du Style Médical en France et en Italie. Cahiers d'humanisme et de Renaissance 89. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2009. 349 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $50. ISBN: 978–2–600–01263–8. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Medicine and society in early modern Europe – By May Lindemann
John A Marino, Becoming Neapolitan
Louis Sambon and the Clash of Pellagra Etiologies in Italy and the United States, 1905–14
This article explores the extent to which the bacterial concept of disease acted as an obstacle to the understanding of deficiency diseases, by focusing on explorations into the cause of pellagra in the early twentieth century. In 1900, pellagra had been epidemic in Italy for 150 years and was soon to become so in the United States, yet the responses of medical investigators differed substantially. To account for these, the article reconstructs t…
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