Add to ORKGThis paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance. Far from being regarded with today’s scepticism, chiromancy was a form of divination regularly practised by physicians, debated in universities, and requested by men of power. Beginning with a description of the poor state-of-the-art regarding this matter, even including cases of mistaken identity, the paper presents the results of the first survey on this theme. The origin of divination through hand-reading and the Renaissance fortune of pseudo-Aristotelian treatises on chiromancy and physiognomy are tackled, as well as a presentation of the main figures involved in the debate: Alessandro Achillini, Girolamo Manfredi, Bartolomeo della Rocca...
An unpublished miscellaneous manuscript in the Corsinian Library (Corsinianus 901) contains 14 leave...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...
This paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance....
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
This thesis aims to demonstrate the impact that other intellectual traditions had upon British Latin...
The diffusion of Neoplatonic culture in the Renaissance has been addressed by several authors (Margo...
This thesis aims to demonstrate the impact that other intellectual traditions had upon British Latin...
This paper examines the production and circulation of astrological prognostications regarding the il...
This paper examines the production and circulation of astrological prognostications regarding the il...
The early modernity inherited the ancient and medieval conviction that normally hidden knowledge abo...
An unpublished miscellaneous manuscript in the Corsinian Library (Corsinianus 901) contains 14 leave...
An unpublished miscellaneous manuscript in the Corsinian Library (Corsinianus 901) contains 14 leave...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...
This paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance....
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
This thesis aims to demonstrate the impact that other intellectual traditions had upon British Latin...
The diffusion of Neoplatonic culture in the Renaissance has been addressed by several authors (Margo...
This thesis aims to demonstrate the impact that other intellectual traditions had upon British Latin...
This paper examines the production and circulation of astrological prognostications regarding the il...
This paper examines the production and circulation of astrological prognostications regarding the il...
The early modernity inherited the ancient and medieval conviction that normally hidden knowledge abo...
An unpublished miscellaneous manuscript in the Corsinian Library (Corsinianus 901) contains 14 leave...
An unpublished miscellaneous manuscript in the Corsinian Library (Corsinianus 901) contains 14 leave...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...
From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offi...