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Author Finucci, Valeria, author

Title The Prince's Body : Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine / Valeria Finucci
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Staging the Body -- 1. The Virgin Cure Manual Exams and Early Modern Surgeons -- 2. The Aesthetic Cure Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery -- 3. The Comfort Cure Managing Pain and Catarrh at the Spa -- 4. The Sexual Cure Searching for a Viagra in the New World -- Epilogue Unwrapping the Body -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes FinucciValeria: Valeria Finucci is Professor of Italian and Theater Studies and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Duke University
In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACM, viewed April 03 2015)
Subject Aging -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
Human body -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 17th century
Medicine, Medieval -- Italy
Rejuvenation -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History
Renaissance -- Italy -- Biography
Renaissance -- Italy -- Biography -- History
Medicine -- History.
History of Medicine
History, 16th Century
History, Modern 1601-
history of medicine.
Health & Fitness -- Holism.
Health & Fitness -- Reference.
Medical -- Alternative Medicine.
Medical -- Atlases.
Medical -- Essays.
Medical -- Family & General Practice.
Medical -- Holistic Medicine.
Medical -- Osteopathy.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Aging -- Social aspects
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Human reproduction -- Social aspects
Medicine
Medicine, Medieval
Renaissance
SUBJECT Italy
Subject Italy
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014014549
ISBN 9780674735668
0674735668
9780674967069
0674967062