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Andrea Vesalius and the Accademia degli Infiammati (New York City, 17 March 2009)
The Doctoral Specialization in Italian, Ph.D. Program in Comparative
Literature of the Graduate Center, CUNY and The Department of Romance Languages of Hunter College invite you to a lecture by
Prof. Andrea Carlino (University of Geneva)
on
“Anatomy, Rhetoric, and the Art of Memory: Andrea Vesalius and the
Accademia degli Infiammati”
Introduction by Nancy Siraisi, Emeritus Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Graduate Center, Room 9204
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York
NB: Access to the building is granted upon presentation of a valid
Graduate Center or other valid CUNY college ID card. Visitors must
show another form of picture identification and sign-in at the lobby
desk.
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While Andreas Vesalius was writing and preparing the publication of
the De humani corporis fabrica, in Padua flourished the Accademia
degli Infiammati. The Infiammati’s activity was generally focused on
discussing Aristotelian philosophy, vernacular poetry, and issues
related to the arts of language. Particular attention was conferred to rhetoric, considered by Sperone Speroni as the skeleton sustaining any field of knowledge. Looking at the acquaintance of Vesalius with Benedetto Varchi and Daniele Barbaro (both leading figures of the Infiammati) and at his possible familiarity with the works of Giulio Camillo, this lecture aims at discussing the multiple relationships between rhetoric and anatomy in this cultural milieu and, more specifically, addresses the question of how this might have affected the production of the Fabrica.
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Andrea Carlino teaches history of medicine at the University of
Geneva. In the field of the history of anatomy and of scientific
visual culture he has published Books of the Body. Anatomical Ritual
and Renaissance Learning (Chicago and London 1999), Paper Bodies. A
Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets (1538-1687) (London 1999) and, in collaboration with Deanna Petherbridge and Claude Ritschard, the catalogue of the exhibition Corps à vif. Art et Anatomie (Geneva 1998). His current research is focused on the relationship of literature, medicine and natural philosophy, namely on the humanist foundations of scientific culture, as well as on literary practices and techniques in Early Modern Science and Medicine. He has recently co-edited Littérature et médecine. Approches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (Geneva 2007) and, with Michel Jeanneret, Vulgariser la médecine : A la recherche d’un style médical en France et en Italie (XVI et XVII siècles) (Geneva 2008).
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