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359 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 17 (2012) 351-370 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2012 DOI: 10.1163/157338212X645166 Serena Stefanizzi, Il «De balneis» di Tommaso Giunti (1553). Autori e testi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2011), pp. x+210, 6 figs., €18.70, ISBN 978 88 222 6030 7. e aim of this book is to introduce the study of the first and most important collection of writings on thermal and medical waters published during the Renaissance: the Bal- nea , the subtitle of which explicitly declares the printer’s intention to put together “omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas (...) scriptores (...) in quo aquarum ac thermarum omnium (...) explicatur.” e edition appeared in Venice in 1553 and was published by the well-known Tuscan printer Tommaso di Lucantonio Giunti. It collects more than seventy texts that witness the revival of the interest in thermal baths in Europe. For Tommaso Giunti, “Europe” meant above all Italy, Germany and Swit- zerland. is publication, however, complemented the modern humanistic literature by integrating also fragments of an important series of classical and medieval texts originating from Greek, Arab and Latin civilisations. As such, it is a testimonial to a cultural and medical
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Published: Jan 1, 2012
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