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ISBN 10: 1349309982
ISBN 13: 9781349309986
Author: S Kivisto
Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction.
1 Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul
The analogy
Shared goals of satire and moral philosophy
The satirist as an expert healer
Internally sick: appetites as diseases
Hidden wounds and symptomatic colours in Roman satire
Changing traditions: from rotten insides to disease encomia
2 Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire
Medicine as a metaphor for writing satire
The healing doctor and the sick doctor
Heinsius and Volpi on satirical catharsis
Satirical effects and emotions
Therapy as punishment
3 Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life
Epideictic rhetoric and paradoxical praises of disease
Fever as a moral disease
Divine gout dwells in wealth and luxury
Enduring pain like a Stoic
The blessings of gout
Matthaeus Czanakius: in praise of the itch
On old age
4 Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation
Blindness and sin
Blindness and insight
Guther, Passerat and Puteanus on blindness
Marten Schoock on deafness
On the wonderful lethargy
The ambivalence of intoxication
5 Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities
Albert Wichgreve's praise of dwarfs
Intellectual outlook and thinness in Jacob Balde's poetry
Strange student diseases
The art of farting
6 Satire as Therapy
Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study
Notes
Bibliography
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