Abstract
Renaissance physicians, influenced by humanism and spurred by their increased knowledge of Hippocratic and Galenic writings, attempted to assimilate these medical works with Aristotelian thought. The similarities between the Aristotelian Problemata and the Hippocratic Airs, Waters, Places allowed Girolamo Cardano and Lodovico Settala, among others, to blur the distinctions between natural philosophical and medical authorities. Philological and historical considerations of these texts as well as judgments about authenticity were colored by the belief that these works were useful for humoral physiology and offered insights into the unity of ancient and modern knowledge.
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Carlino 1999, 125–128.
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Klestinec 2007.
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Pomponazzi 1563, 27r-30r.
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Vallés 1591.
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Cardano 1663, 8:585. “Et ob hoc intelligimus, Medicinam esse certiorem naturali philosophia, cum naturalis philosophia semper procedat ab effectibus ad causas, Medicina vero persaepe a causis supra effectus.”
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Siraisi 1997, 52–57.
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Falloppio 1570, 40v.
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Settala 1632.
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Settala 1632, 1:4r.
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Siraisi 1987.
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Nutton 1989.
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Kibre 1975, 123–126.
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Wear 2008.
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Cadden 1997.
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Klibansky et al. 1964, 68, 72, 119.
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Bacon 2004, 11:98–99.
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Settala 1602, vii.
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Cf. Aristotle, DA 2.7,.418b13-16; 2.12.424a17-b20.
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Cf. Aristotle, GA 1.18.723b23-724a1.
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An exception is Lennox 1994.
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Stocks 1930, 21.
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Williams 1995, 45.
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Vives 1538, 5r-5v.
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Vimercati 1556, 220.
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Patrizi 1571, 25.
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Guastavini 1608, 3.
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Accoramboni 1590, 742.
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Settala 1590, col. 407. “Aristoteles etiam (si modo libri illi sunt Aristoteli tribuendi, quod non facile affirmarem) in Problem. sect. 4. problem. 16.”
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Settala 1632, 1:383.
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Settala 1632, 3:348.
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Schmitt 1983.
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Kraye 1996.
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Rice 1970.
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For the Latin translations of the Problemata see: Ventura 2008.
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Schmitt 1965.
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Trapezuntius 1967, 3:341.
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Grafton 1977.
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Brasavola 1544, 518–530.
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Nutton 1997.
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Reeds 1991, 536–537.
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Mercuriale 1588, 1:56.
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Nutton 1989.
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Hirai 2011, 104–122.
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Norpoth 1930, 301.
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Lohr 1972, 331.
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Luiz 1540, 109r. “antiquae tralationis vitio.”
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Luiz 1540 , 109v–110r.
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Lawn 1963, 132.
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Settala 1632, preface, 4r.
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Blair 1999a, 194.
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Lloyd 1988.
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Montesauri 1546, 138v. “Philosophus Hipp. Sequitur in hac quaestione qui in com. de aere aquis et locis et in com. de semine semen ab omnibus corporis membris procedere docuit.”
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Montesauri 1546, 248v. “Haec enim temperies non solum corpori, sed animae protinus, exceptus autem caloris, ex frigoris aeris non solum corprois, sed et animi temperamentum pervertunt. Hanc sententiam ex mente Hipp. et Platonis, ac Aristotelis in commento supra citato Galenus diffuse declaravit.”
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Cardano 1663, 8:12.
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Cardano 1663, 8:3.
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Cardano 1663, 8:2.
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L’Alemant 1557, 5r.
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Cardano 1663, 8:67.
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Siraisi 2007, 93102.
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Settala 1590, col. 4, col. 10.
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Baldini 1586, 45.
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Baldini 1586, 204. “videlicet animam sive mortalis sive immortalis sit sanitati corporis ancillari, cum ergo corpus mutatur animum quoque mutari necesse est.”
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Baldini 1586, 237.
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Ongaro 2000.
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Nacattel 1645, 7273.
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Cremonini 1598, 186v.
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Nancel 1587, 1v.
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Persona 1602, 4, 9.
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Settala 1632, 2:271.
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Settala 1632, 2:273.
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Settala 1632, 2:274–275.
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Settala 1632, 2:197.
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Settala 1632, 3:360.
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Aristotle GA 1.18.723b-724a.
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Settala 1632, 280–281.
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Settala 1632, 281.
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Settala 1632, 1:3; 1:40.
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Ripamonti 1841, 41–44.
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Settala 1622, 88.
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Settala 1632, 1:12–14.
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Manelfi 1646, 30, 34–35, 90.
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I thank the editors and the anonymous readers for their comments, suggestions, and corrections. Research for this chapter was supported by a FWO grant administered by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Institute of Philosophy.
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Martin, C. (2016). Lodovico Settala’s Aristotelian Problemata Commentary and Late-Renaissance Hippocratic Medicine. In: Distelzweig, P., Goldberg, B., Ragland, E. (eds) Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy. History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7353-9_2
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