457. Take Your Medicine: Oliva Sabuco and Camilla Erculiani

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Natural philosophy and medicine in the work of two unorthodox thinkers of the late sixteenth century, both of them women.

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Further Reading

• E. Carinci (ed.), H. Marcus (trans.), Camilla Erculiani: Letters on Natural Philosophy (New York: 2021).

• G. Pomata (trans.), Oliva Sabuco: the True Medicine (Toronto: 2010).

• M.E. Waithe, M. Vintró, C.A. Zorita (trans.), Oliva Sabuco: New Philosophy of Human Nature (Urbana: 2007).

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• S. Barbone, “Oliva Sabuco and the Matter of the Matter,” Society and Politics 9 (2015), 25-37.

• J.L. Barona, “The Body Republic: Social Order and Human Body in Renaissance Medical Thought,” History of Philosophical Life Sciences 15 (1993), 165-80.

• M. Bidwell-Steiner, Große Welt — kleine Welt — verkehrte Welt: Die philogyne Naturphilosophie der Renaissance-Denkerin Olivia Sabuco de Nantes y Barrera (Innsbruck: 2009).

• G. Manning, "Women, Medicine, and the Life Sciences," in K. Detlefsen and L. Shapiro (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy (London: 2023).

• M.K. Ray, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge: 2015).

• R. Romero Pérez, Oliva Sabuco 1562–1620, Filósofa del Renacimiento Español (Toledo: 2008).

• P. Talamo, “Passioni e malattie nella Nueva filosofía di Oliva Sabuco de Nantes,” Bruniana e campanelliana 12 (2002), 201-6.

• M.E. Waithe and M.E. Vintró, “Posthumously Plagiarizing Oliva Sabuco: An Appeal to Cataloging Librarians,” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 35 (2003), 525-40.

Comments

Patrick S on 26 November 2024

Muses?

So first cool episode! 

Second wouldn't we be up to at least 12 muses at this point since Sappho was called the tenth muse, by no less than Plato! (If I'm remembering correctly)

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Peter Adamson on 26 November 2024

Extra muses

And I just came across another figure who was called the tenth muse in the 17th century, too. Seems like it was quite a standard compliment for women of genius.

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