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Un epigramma di Gabriele Faerno (1510-1561) dedicato al medico cremonese Omobono Offredi
Miralles Maldonado, José C.
Miralles Martínez, Victoria
2025
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2785-1346
Abstract
Among Gabriele Faerno’s Latin poems, we have a composition of just 42 verses dedicated to the physician Omobono Offredi, his fellow countryman. In this short poem, written in elegiac couplets, Faerno narrates how Offredi performed a sur¬gical operation on himself, removing a stone from his bladder. The anecdote offers the poet the opportunity to poetically recount how this pathology was treated in sixteenth-century Italy. In this contribution we aim to analyse the way Faerno uses medical material to construct a celebratory poem, transforming the medical treat¬ment of this disease into poetic material. Thus, we hold this poem as an interesting example of how to ‘narrate medicine’, that is, how to use narrative strategies in the description of diseases and their treatment.
Tra le poesie latine di Gabriele Faerno, ci è pervenuta una composizione di appena 42 versi dedicata al medico Omobono Offredi, suo conterraneo. In questo poemetto, scritto in distici elegiaci, Faerno racconta come Offredi abbia eseguito su di sé un’operazione chirurgica, rimuovendo un calcolo dalla vescica. L’aneddoto offre al poeta l’opportunità di raccontare poeti¬camente come veniva trattata questa patologia nell’Italia del XVI secolo. In questo contributo ci proponiamo di analizzare il modo in cui Faerno utilizza la materia medica per costruire un poemetto celebrativo, trasformando il trattamento medico di questa malattia in materiale poetico. In questo modo, consideriamo questo poema come un interessante esempio di come “narrare la medicina”, cioè come utilizzare strategie narrative nella descrizione delle malattie e del loro trattamento.
Among Gabriele Faerno’s Latin poems, we have a composition of just 42 verses dedicated to the physician Omobono Offredi, his fellow countryman. In this short poem, written in elegiac couplets, Faerno narrates how Offredi performed a sur¬gical operation on himself, removing a stone from his bladder. The anecdote offers the poet the opportunity to poetically recount how this pathology was treated in sixteenth-century Italy. In this contribution we aim to analyse the way Faerno uses medical material to construct a celebratory poem, transforming the medical treat¬ment of this disease into poetic material. Thus, we hold this poem as an interesting example of how to ‘narrate medicine’, that is, how to use narrative strategies in the description of diseases and their treatment.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
José C. Miralles Maldonado, Victoria Miralles Martínez, "Un epigramma di Gabriele Faerno (1510-1561) dedicato al medico cremonese Omobono Offredi" in: "ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 5 (2025)", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 1-28
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it
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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