Eterodossia E Medicina Nella Prima Età Moderna: i "medici ariani" alle corte di Stefano Báthory
This article investigates the circumstances of the network of the heterodox- oriented physicians of the second half of the 16th century, in particular at the court of the Catholic King of Poland and Lithuania, Stephen Bathory (1576-1586). The aim of the article is to reveal how deeply the confession...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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Ed. Morcelliana
[2019]
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Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
Year: 2019, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-61 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBK Europe (East) KDH Christian sects NCH Medical ethics |
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Polonia-Lituania
B eterodossia B Stefano Báthory B Stefan Batory, King of Poland, 1533-1586 B medici italiani B Reformation B Heterodoxy B Transylvania B Medicine B Italian Physicians B Buccella B Simone Simoni B Stephen Bathory B Transilvania B Medicina B Nicolò B Poland-Lithuania B Giorgio Biandrata |
| Summary: | This article investigates the circumstances of the network of the heterodox- oriented physicians of the second half of the 16th century, in particular at the court of the Catholic King of Poland and Lithuania, Stephen Bathory (1576-1586). The aim of the article is to reveal how deeply the confessional identity and the professional activity of learned physicians were intertwined at respublica medicorum during the late Reformation. The network of socalled \"Arian Physicians\" was established among Italian religious dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Poland-Lithuania. Due to the long professional experience (from 1540) at the Jagiellonian courts in Poland-Lithuania as well as later in Transylvania, the key figure of the heterodox network in the region was Giorgio Biandrata (1515-1588), physician and counsel to the King. Thanks to his endeavor, the whole corpus of physicians of King Stephen Bathory was established, starting from 1575, when Nicolò Buccella (d. 1599), a Venetian Anabaptist from Padua, was invited to join him in Transylvania and soon transferred to Poland-Lithuania with the newly elected king. Alongside with Buccella, the team of physicians of Bathory included such Italian heterodox figures as Fabiano Nifo and Simone Simoni (1532-1602), while Marcello Squarcialupi (ca. 1538-1599) worked at the Transylvanian court. The heterodox physicians made a consistent element of the early Socinian comunity and collaborated closely with their religious leader Fausto Sozzini who from 1579 lived in exile in Krakow. The first controversies on the topics of medicine and natural philosophy that sparkled between immigrant Italian heterodoxes were initiated by Simoni who decided to convert to the Roman faith because of selfish motives. Thus they were confessionally motivated. The article also deals with the reaction to the integration of socinians into the market of medical practice in the region. Although the \"Arian Physicians\" were first referred to as the growing danger to the Christendom by the leading German speaking Protestant physicians of the magisterial Reformation, it was the Jesuits as the main power that attempted at purification of the domain of the medical practitioners from the \"Arians\" in the region. |
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