Article ID: CBB914369554

Oro, argento e pietre di colore: Alcuni esempi di amuleti medici (2020)

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The medical properties attributed to metals and stones were connected to a series of aspects that mingled with each other in a perfect harmonic fusion: astrology, religion, magic and alchemy, mineralogy and color that, besides to transmit energy and fascination, for some magical-sympathetic correspondences, referred to parts of the human body and to specific diseases. This incomparable harmony, however, does not allow us to recognize the borders or prevalences of one or the other of these aspects without getting lost in the labyrinth of symbols of the vast world of Graeco-Roman magic. From the reading of Pliny the Elder's "Naturalis Historia," ancient "Lapidari" and some of the many studies on the magical-medical aspect of the amulets, it is a brief synthesis, privileging as far as possible, the color and symbolic aspect of the stones, without however being able to completely neglect the epigraphic-lexical and mythical-religious references.

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Authors & Contributors
Cavarra, Berenice
Effie Photos-Jones
Mahboubeh Farkhondehzadeh
Lopez, Francesco
Cavallo, Daniela
Chiara Ballestrazzi
Concepts
Color
Medicine
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Magic
Astrology
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Bronze age
17th century
16th century
Places
Egypt
Italy
Rome (Italy)
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