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REVIEWS

1277

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generally,

perhaps especially refine their work.

Darin

Hayton

Haverford College Giovan

Filosof?a pp. index, Giovan demic

Filippo
e Scienza illus.

Ingrassia. Lnformatione
nell'Et? 45. Moderna. Ed. Luigi ISBN: 88-464-7290-X.

del pest?fero et contagioso morbo.

Ingaliso. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2005. 650

Filippo out flared

was Ingrassia control. of his about and

of Palermo protomedico Then years sixty-four all the century's Given debates his former official

in

of

well-informed exceptionally of pestilence, contagion, to task was initial explain nature causes

epi was Ingrassia the nature concerning age, capacity, and Ingrassia's ultimately to arrest humanism extent all this to

1575,

when

an

epidemics. a to the duke, grateful

patient, or

were unable to determine explain to King Philip II of Spain, why physicians

in its course, early epidemic a force had been progress. importing guiding Ingrassia to Sicilian medical reforms and anatomical education, and of the at stake of the for him. He claimed whom that neither cases the disease subsequently Paduan medical and appeared to some

the
its

was

his colleagues in late May had caused 300 deaths by the began to to went that this point, end of June. At extraordinary explain lengths Ingrassia a and he rather than "true instead the disease was contagion" plague," "pestiferous to a could transmissions crucial the first traced however, prostitute. Contagion, of the sub and consideration be rationally by discussion places, explained only and Given disease. that led to a contact-borne and mechanisms stances, authority stratum treat. population, But what as isolated sufficient and resources for until every the end of August, aspect or

he nor

the lowest among were to accustomed

guidelines transmitted by instructions

conceivable one the person

touch

from both to to

ening despite thority.

his his

explaining commitment disinclination

rationale

a Fracastorian, privilege the

instructions crafted detailed Ingrassia a be that could of managing plague to another. briefs He wrote and place and the procedures, deep increasingly atomistic of contagion, explanation au over recentiores medical traditional

1278

RENAISSANCE

QUARTERLY

When with those deemed of a

the lazaretto, were capable

pestiferous

illness

did

not

respond

to Palermo's to who The those

first who

experiments recovered, but were still arm of

who

extended Ingrassia in some contact with of transmitting control lens of plague. took

isolation the

protocols those

ill, and

survived

Costs over,

mounted. leaving

early modern through

plague the

Ingrassia of his

criminal-justice to view the spread complex course

plague Meanwhile, most October,

of minute the duke's of no the

infractions deputies epidemic directing

the actions people. The

determined unfolded everything.

the from

regulations. for of events to early

poorer when

worst was

late August until the

Ingrassia

longer

Not

summer

of 1576 did Ingrassia finish his Informatione del pest?fero et contagioso morbo, a
hefty, scholarly tome borne that this less out even that includes all of his the evidence points Sicily out, during in this epidemic. Today correspondence we know, for over and arguments Luigi deaths about Ingaliso in all was as editor half rate, the at 3.8

substantially Many traordinary to his mentor medieval particularly on material and

Palermo accounted though ? ? around 3,100 epidemic than any other urban locality, of plague Ingaliso's Dollo's medical of Giovanni and conditions, an important have made

the death or rural.

percent,

historians testimonial. Corrado

occasional introduction Ingrassia's the and Dollo occasional within

reference draws intellectual coming argued

extensive interest in

Ingrassia's attention primary position

to

ex

between

and

Renaissance in the work substances

theory

Scientific that

Revolution,

Borrelli. with

references

focus Ingrassia's to experiments epistemo a

observations, shift within extent with astrology to the

formed medical Ingrassia its devotion and generation the

bridge

a fundamental from

logical significant humanism, medical approach

science, was to still

releasing methodology a man of the old world, reflection occult causes, on

To philosophy. to medical committed ancient a late texts, scholastic

philological of possibility of new

"pure" to and

to

knowledge. also offers the Scientific a cogent summary position of of the course occu of

Ingaliso's the plague pies within Italy, Ingrassia medica, and

extensive

introduction management, of of the

under the the

Ingrassia's larger large (for history number example,

intellectual Revolution

Ingrassia

seventeenth-century

other

made and

to anatomy, He

to medical

jurisprudence).

that medical contributions significant to and materia management pharmacy we the other does not notice connection

might
of the which

see: the Spanish context of Ingrassia's highly influential book. Even the title
book typically is a departure announce from rules his those and own and given to Italian and a and Latin plague Giovan in treatises, Thomasio was also a regimens, experience Ingrassia causes within cited his origins. house

de Porcellis, first word in New never to offer neutral Spain,

summarizing "information," enough a way

pest

book. of

Informatione

Zaragosa, was

to summarize to approximate

communications the understanding

strange of a world

life-forms that

observed the ancients

imagined.

Ann
Indiana

G. Carmichael
University