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Project
Revealing Secrets: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Italian Renaissance Literature (ca. 1550-1600)
This project aims at studying the rhetorical strategies and the use of vernacular in the 16th century books of secrets, a popular genre of medical Italian literature that spread throughout Europe. The research focuses on the collection of Secreti kept in the UGent Library and represents the first step of a broader project pursued by the Promoter.
Date:1 Sep 2022 → 31 Jan 2023
Keywords:History of medicine, Rhetoric, Vernacular literature, Italian Renaissance, Books of secrets
Disciplines:Stylistics and textual analysis, Sociology of literary texts, Literatures in Italian, Early modern literature, Rhetoric