| Title |
Italian physicians in Exile and the first medical book in Lithuania / |
| Authors |
Pociūtė, Dainora |
| DOI |
10.51740/dpt.1 |
| ISBN |
9786094052279 |
| eISBN |
9786094052286 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Theatrum Libri: book printing, reading and dissemination in Early Modern Europe / edited by Milda Kvizikevičiūtė, Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė.. Vilnius : Lietuvos nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka, 2022. p. 142-165.. ISBN 9786094052279. eISBN 9786094052286 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Simone Simoni ; Niccolo Buccella ; Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; Medicine ; Physicians ; Stepen Bathory ; Controversy |
| Abstract [eng] |
The article analyses the historical episodes in which the first medical book published in Lithuania, Commentariola medica et physica (1584), was prepared by the Italian physician Simone Simoni (1532-1602). Assuming that the medical practice was directly affected by confessionalisation, tensions between heterodox physicians and Jesuits, the circumstances for the concentration of Italian heterodox physicians in the region of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Transylvania in the second half of the sixteenth century are discussed. Simone Simoni, a former Protestant and refugee religionis causa, in 1582 converted to Catholicism, and from 1583 served as a physician to the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stephen Bathory (1576-1586), undertook criticism of Italian physicians belonging to the early Socinian circle. In 1584-1589 Simoni developed two major controversies against Marcello Squarcialupi (1538-1592), who worked at the manor of the Transylva-nian duke Sigismund Báthory (1573-1613), and Niccolò Buccella (died in 1599), the chief physician of Stephen B athory. Commentariola medica et physica was the first fruit of this controversy. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Lietuvos nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka, 2022 |
| Type |
Book part |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2022 |
| CC license |
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