Book ID: CBB518420269

Il chierico, il medico, il santo. Guarire con l'immaginazione nella Napoli di età moderna (2024)

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Daniele, Stefano (Author)


Il Mulino


Publication Date: 2024
Physical Details: 224 pp.
Language: Italian

A Napoli, l'11 agosto 1752, in una cella del monastero di Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta, il novizio Carlo de Vivis attende di passare a miglior vita. Il medico ordinario lo ha dato per spacciato poiché una malattia contagiosa gli ha corroso irreversibilmente i polmoni. E invece nel primo pomeriggio il frate si risveglia risanato e confessa agli sbigottiti confratelli di aver sognato Francesco Caracciolo (1563-1608), fondatore dell'ordine religioso dei Chierici Regolari Minori, di cui egli veste l'abito. Francesco gli ha intimato di alzarsi, perché ormai ristabilito. Tutti gridano al miracolo, ma l'autorità apostolica vuole andare più a fondo in quella misteriosa guarigione: può esser fatta risalire all'immaginazione del frate? E in tale circostanza si può ancora parlare di miracolo? Il caso, a oggi inedito e qui ricostruito a partire dai verbali dei processi per la beatificazione e canonizzazione del Caracciolo, offre un contributo alla questione dei confini tra naturale e soprannaturale nella storia della scienza. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… In Naples, on 11 August 1752, in a cell of the monastery of Santa Maria Maggiore alla Pietrasanta, the novice Carlo de Vivis waited to die. The ordinary doctor gave him up for lost because a contagious disease irreversibly corroded his lungs. And instead in the early afternoon the friar wakes up healed and confesses to the astonished brothers that he has dreamed of Francesco Caracciolo (1563-1608), founder of the religious order of the Clerics Regular Minor, whose habit he wears. Francesco ordered him to get up, because he had now recovered. Everyone shouts about a miracle, but the apostolic authority wants to go deeper into that mysterious healing: can it be traced back to the friar's imagination? And in this circumstance can we still speak of a miracle? The case, unpublished to date and reconstructed here starting from the minutes of the processes for the beatification and canonization of Caracciolo, offers a contribution to the question of the boundaries between natural and supernatural in the history of science.]

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Authors & Contributors
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Pierroberto Scaramella
Bárth, Dániel
Clark, Fiona
Conforti, Maria
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Viella
Ashgate
Einaudi
Oxford University Press
Routledge
Concepts
Medicine and religion
Supernatural
Medicine
Miracles
Science and religion
Roman Catholic Church
People
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Januarius, Saint, Bishop of Benevento
Malpighi, Marcello
Maxwell, James Clerk
Tyndall, John
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Early modern
20th century, early
12th century
Places
Naples (Italy)
Italy
Paris (France)
Ireland
France
Hungary
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