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The professor of secrets mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy

Main Author: Eamon, William.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
Subjects:
Fioravanti, Leonardo, > 1518-1588.
Physicians > Italy > Biography.
Renaissance > Italy.
Medicine > Italy > History > 16th century.
Alchemy > Italy > History > 16th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Experience and memory
  • Mia dolce patria
  • The empire of disease
  • Medical Bologna
  • Leonardo and the anatomists
  • The education of a surgeon
  • The road of experience
  • The carnival doctor
  • The new Asclepius
  • The marvelous virtues of Precipitato
  • Charlatan or wonder worker?
  • An ingenious surgery
  • The marvels of Naples
  • An academy of magi
  • The university of war
  • The cardinal's house
  • A surgeon in Rome
  • A road not taken
  • Venetian curiosities
  • The lure of the charlatan
  • A writer for the age
  • Venice's scientific underworld
  • Mathematical magic
  • The search for the philosopher's stone
  • A star is born
  • The medical entrepreneur
  • Ambition and glory
  • A conspiracy of doctors
  • Leonardo the chameleon
  • Life and art
  • In the court of the Catholic king
  • Masters of fire
  • The charlatan's trial
  • "Il mio sacco è vuoto"
  • The judgment of history
  • Epilogue: Traces.

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