Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500

by Nancy G. Siraisi

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory.

Originally published in 1987.

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428 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Aram · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would actually advise quite heavily against reading this book. Siraisi and her counterpart Andrew Wear -- regarding the circulation of Arabic medicine in the early modern world -- contradict themselves in arguing that the study was non-existent but simultaneously cultivated all over Europe. Not to mention that Siraisi does not mention the Persian name of Avicenna ONCE!