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Lastraioli, Chiara, "«La più santa, la più gloriosa, la più bella cosa che sia al mondo»: notes sur le discours parodique sur la pelade au XVIe siècle", Histoire, médecine et santé, 9 [=Syphilis, ed. Ariane Bayle i Concetta Pennuto] (2016), 41-54.
- Resum
- Italian literature of the Renaissance provides a great number of writings bearing the stamp of the burlesque and parodying the medical culture of the times. Among the authors' favorite subjects, the discourse on alopecia areata, one of the most obvious symptoms of syphilis, is naturally given pride of place. Like any other sexually transmitted diseases, this shameful illness involved a kind of social stigma as it was implicitly related to sexual behaviors that were more or less banned, such as keeping courtesans, hetero and/or homosexual promiscuity, and so on). Likewise, as an incurable condition, it allowed to renew the comic repertoire which already flaunted a long and notorious tradition in satiric attacks on doctors and apothecaries. It was therefore the same for patients, courtesans and physicians alike in comic literature: they were all the butts of fierce and no less uproarious mockery.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de la literatura
- URL
- https://journals.openedition.org/hms/947
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