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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 Ghent University Library and represents the first step of a broader project pursued by the Promoter.

Date:1 Jan 2018 →  Today
Keywords:Italian Renaissance, books of secrets, rhetoric, vernacular literature, history of medicine
Disciplines:History and foundations, Language studies, Philosophy, Communication sciences, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Literary studies, Rhetoric, Literatures in Italian, Early modern history, History of medicine, Early modern literature