A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics
(Book #89 in the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series Series)
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Around 1460, Michele Savonarola - incidentally the grandfather of the even more famous Savonarola, the Florentine prophet Girolamo - produced the extraordinary Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara. This gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric treatise is the first of its kind written in a European vernacular, so that it could be potentially read not only by the learned, who communicated in Latin, but also by pregnant and nursing mothers and the midwives and wet nurses who presided over childbirth. Yet Savonarola's work is no trivial set of instructions but the work of a learned scholar who draws on, among others, the ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, and Avicenna's Canon of Medicine. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:164959030X
ISBN13:9781649590305
Release Date:August 2022
Publisher:Iter Press
Length:270 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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