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Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Leonardo Fioravanti, the Medical Examination of Odors, and the Reconstructed Nose
In his medical treatise De urinis, the learned physician Giovanni Battista da Monte (1498-1551), perhaps best known for integrating clinical practice into his teaching, insisted that urine needed to be analyzed not only in terms of color and consistency but also odor.1 He devoted an entire chapter, titled De odore, to the crucial topic of the role of smells and smelling in diagnostic practice, and he offered in this medical book, printed posthumously in 1554, the following straightforward information: \"Therefore, either urine will be odorous or deprived of odor,\" meaning it could smell either \"good\" (it has no real odor) or \"bad\" (it has a putrescent odor, which is to say, prosaically, it stinks).2 Da Monte made similar claims regarding the analysis of excrement, which we should understand to denote not only feces and urine but also anything excreted from the body, including tears.
Journal Article
The Politics of Cleanliness in Northern Renaissance Italy
From Leonardo Bruni's Florentine mercantile world to the rise of the nobility in Della Casa's Renaissance, the elite were progressively distancing themselves, and sometimes they perceived that distance through the image of filth.
Journal Article
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Biow reviews Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy by Arielle Saiber.
Book Review