Andres Laguna y el humanismo medico

In the final sentence of Andrés Laguna y el humanismo médico, the author writes: "We are now able to affirm with the necessary rigor that Andrés Laguna ought to be placed among the great medical humanists of sixteenth-century Europe" (Andrés Laguna, p. 298). Whether either of these books succeeds in accomplishing this objective is questionable. Although exhaustively researched and rigorously structured, they suffer from an unfortunate lack of wit, making it hard for the reader to want to delve into their contents. Still, they provide a useful entry into the chaotic world of Renaissance medical humanism. This is particularly true in Andrés Laguna y el humanismo médico, where González describes Renaissance and medical humanism in general, and then examines their specific Spanish variations. He also examines Laguna's work as genre and as textual criticism, and his use of sources—finally evaluating him as a Latinist

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