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Quaranta Alessandra

Département des sciences historiques > Histoire culturelle

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Main Referenced Co-authors
Ciappelli, Giovanni (1)
Gentilini, Gianni (1)
Main Referenced Keywords
court medicine (3); Girolamo Donzellini (3); Crato von Crafftheim (2); Habsburg courts (2); Marcello Squarcialupi (2);
Main Referenced Disciplines
History (38)
Art & art history (1)

Publications (total 39)

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A. Quaranta. "Italian Physicians at the Habsburg Courts (1550–1620): Hiring Processes, Professional Networks and Integration into the Court Space." European History Quarterly, 53, no. 4 (2023): 549–578. doi:10.1177/02656914231200432 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/320850

The most cited

4 citations (Scopus®)

A. Quaranta. "The Consilia by Learned Physicians Pietro Andrea Mattioli and Francesco Partini. Dialectic Relations between Doctrine, Empirical Knowledge and Use of the Senses in the Sixteenth-century Europe." Social History of Medicine, 35, no. 1 (2022): 20–48. doi:10.1093/shm/hkab118 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/320844

Publications

Books

Written alone

A. Quaranta. Medici italiani eretici nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Esperienze d’esilio e rapporti culturali e scientifici con il mondo di lingua tedesca. Palermo, Italy: New Digital Frontiers, 2019.
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A. Quaranta. ‘Medici-physici’ trentini nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Sapere medico, identità professionale e scambi cultural-scientifici con le corti asburgiche. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2019.
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Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Medicina e sanità in Trentino nel Cinque-Seicento tra saperi, società e scambi culturali.Edited by G. Ciappelli and A. Quaranta. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2019. doi:10.15168/11572_247978
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Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

A. Quaranta. "Gender and the Doctor-Patient Relationship. The Casebook of Doctor Francesco Partini (1500-1569)." Genesis : Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche, 22, no. 1 (2023): 201–227.
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A. Quaranta. "Italian Physicians at the Habsburg Courts (1550–1620): Hiring Processes, Professional Networks and Integration into the Court Space." European History Quarterly, 53, no. 4 (2023): 549–578. doi:10.1177/02656914231200432
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A. Quaranta. "The Consilia by Learned Physicians Pietro Andrea Mattioli and Francesco Partini. Dialectic Relations between Doctrine, Empirical Knowledge and Use of the Senses in the Sixteenth-century Europe." Social History of Medicine, 35, no. 1 (2022): 20–48. doi:10.1093/shm/hkab118
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A. Quaranta. "L’inventario della spezieria di Giovanni Zavanti al Cairo (1732). Una rara testimonianza dell’arte farmaceutica europea ai confini tra Oriente e Occidente." Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 101, no. 1 (2021): 421–495.
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A. Quaranta. "Difficoltà e speranze nell’esilio «religionis causa» di Marcello Squarcialupi da Piombino (1538-1592)." Rivista di Storia del Christianesimo, 15, no. 1 (2018): 107–127.
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A. Quaranta. "Umanesimo medico e culture confessionali nell’Europa del Cinquecento: carteggi inediti (1560-1587) di Girolamo Donzellini, “Physicus et Philosophus”." Giornale di Storia, 15 (2014): 1–34.
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Articles in proceedings

A. Quaranta. "Learned Physicians from the Prince-Bishopric of Trento at the Habsburg Courts in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. Social and Intellectual Resources of Successful Medical Careers (pp. 121–142)." In Rohstoffe – Menschen – Wissen: Einblicke in die Ressourcengeschichte des historischen Tirolsedited by G. Neuhauser and E. Taddei, 121–142. Innsbruck, Austria: Innsbruck University Press, 2024. doi:10.15203/99106-113-7
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A. Quaranta. "Women as Patrons and Patients in the Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Territories: The Feminine Role in Medical Encounters (pp. 253–279)." In Die Frau als Gönnerin. Kulturvermittlung, Repräsentation und Fördernetzwerke in der frühneuzeitlichen Habsburger Monarchie Herausgegebenedited by L. Krász and B. Pesti, 253-279. Vienna, Austria: Praesens Verlag, 2023.
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A. Quaranta. "Medici eruditi e terapeutica nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. Pluralità di fonti e metodi." In Attraverso la storia. Nuove ricerche sull’età moderna in Italiaedited by E. Ivetic, 409–422. Napoli, Italy: Editoriale Scientifica, 2020.
Editorial reviewed

A. Quaranta and G. Gentilini. "Il caso clinico del barone Nicolò Madruzzo (1507-1572). La sua salute e il rapporto con il suo medico curante Francesco Partini di Rovereto." In Medicina e sanità in Trentino nel Cinque-Seicento tra saperi, società e scambi culturaliedited by G. Ciappelli and A. Quaranta, 153–194. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2019.
Peer reviewed

A. Quaranta. "Medici trentini e società nella seconda metà del Cinquecento. I rapporti con il potere, i colleghi, i pazienti." In Medicina e sanità in Trentino nel Cinque-Seicento tra saperi, società e scambi culturaliedited by G. Ciappelli and A. Quaranta, 86–126. Trento, Italy: Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2019.
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A. Quaranta. "Exile Experiences ‘Religionis causa’ and the Transmission of Medical Knowledge between Italy and German-Speaking Territories in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century (pp. 72-101)." In Fruits of Migration. Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620edited by V. Lavenia and C. Zwierlein, 72–101. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018. doi:10.1163/9789004371125_005
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Book chapters

A. Quaranta. "Italian Medical Practice at the Habsburg Courts (1550–1600). Encounters and Exchanges between Learned Physicians, Empirics and Patients." In Medicine in Early Modern Italy: between Theory and Practice, 1500-1700edited by S. Cavallo and J. Henderson, 140–182. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, In press.
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A. Quaranta. "La scienza come potere. Conoscere e governare la natura nella Brescia rinascimentale." In Il Rinascimento a Brescia. Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo, 1512-1552edited by R. D’Adda, F. Piazza, and E. Valseriati, 190–207. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2024.
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A. Quaranta. "Learned Physicians from Brescia at the Habsburg Courts (1537-1566). Professional Paths, Relationship with the Imperial Power and Transfer of Italian Medical Knowledge." In Da Brescia all’Europa. Viaggiatori e itinerari in età modernaedited by C. Bazzani, 51–74. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2023.
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A. Quaranta. "Francesco Partini da Rovereto (1500-1569), medico imperiale. La sua attività di cura e le sue reti professionali." In In fürstlicher Nähe. Ärzte bei Hof (1450-1800)edited by M. Hilber and E. Taddei, 53–72. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2021.
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Contributions to encyclopedias and dictionaries

A. Quaranta. "Squarcialupi, Marcello." In Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori nel mondo mediterraneoedited by D. Santarelli. Firenze: Edizioni CLORI, 2022. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1309444
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A. Quaranta. "Duni, Taddeo." In Dizionario di eretici, dissidenti e inquisitori nel mondo mediterraneoedited by D. Santarelli. Florence, Italy: Edizioni CLORI, 2020.
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Book reviews

A. Quaranta. "Book review: Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge. Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, Chicago–London: University of Chicago Press 2020, S. 356." Sehepunkte, 22, no. 3 (2022).
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A. Quaranta. "Book review: Giuseppe Mazzanti, Matrimoni post-tridentini. Un dibattito dottrinale fra continuità e cambiamento (secc. XVI–XVIII), Bologna, 2020." Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 101 (2021): 756–758.
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A. Quaranta. "Book review: Jana Madlen Schütte, Medizin im Konflikt. Fakultäten, Märkte und Experten in deutschen Universitätsstädten des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, Leiden–Boston, 2017." ARO (Annali. Reviews. Online), II, no. 1 (2019).
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Scientific popularization and diffusion for general audience

Articles in magazines or newspapers

A. Quaranta. "Trienter Ärzte in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Kuren und Behandlungen von Nervenbeschwerden." Neurologisch: Fachmagazin für Neurologie ; offizielles Organ der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Neurologie (2020): 14–18.

A. Quaranta. "La medicina nel Cinque-Seicento: il Trentino e le altre realtà italiane." Bollettino Medico Trentino. Organo ufficiale dell’Ordine dei medici chirurghi della Provincia di Trento (2018): 24–27.

A. Quaranta. "L'attività medica in Trentino in età moderna e oggi: spunti di riflessione." Bollettino Medico Trentino. Organo ufficiale dell’Ordine dei medici chirurghi della Provincia di Trento (2017): 26–29.

A. Quaranta. "Le istituzioni ospedaliere ad Arezzo e Firenze nel medioevo." Notizie di storia (Società Storica Aretina), 18, no. 36 (2016): 5–8.

A. Quaranta. "L’attività medica in Trentino nel Cinque e Seicento: tradizione, nuovi spunti empirico-sperimentali, e relazioni scientifico-professionali con l’area germanofona." Bollettino Medico Trentino. Organo ufficiale dell’Ordine dei medici chirurghi della Provincia di Trento (2016): 17–18.

Others

A. Quaranta. "Tagungsbericht: Fruits of Migration. Heterodox Italian migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620." 2017.

Unpublished conferences and communications

Conferences in universities or research centers

A. Quaranta. "Die Rolle der Patientinnen und Ärztinnen am habsburgischen Hofe. Eine Genderperspektive in der medizinischen Praxis des 16. Jahrhunderts." Paper presented at Managing Maximilian (1493-1519). Persona, Politics, and Personnel through the Lens of Digital Prosopography, Vienna, Austria, 19 November 2024.

A. Quaranta. "Medical Writing at Plague Times: the Relationship between Observational Practices, Medical Theories and Patients’ Narratives (16th –17th centuries)." Paper presented at Narratio, Medicine, and the Law: Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case-Histories, Pisa, Italy, 25 October 2024.

A. Quaranta. "Physicians from South Tyrol in the Sixteenth Century. Careers, Professional Networks and Forms of Cooperation in Medical Practice and Scientific Writing." Paper presented at Das Thema Ressourcen im Raum des historischen Tirols, Innsbruck, Austria, 27 September 2023.

A. Quaranta. "Frauen als Gönnerinnen gelehrter Ärzte. Die weibliche Rolle in der medizinischen Kulturentwicklung und -Vermittlung in Habsburger Gebieten im 16. Jahrhundert." Paper presented at Die Frau als Gönnerin: Kulturvermittlung, Repräsentation und (weibliche) Fördernetzwerke im Königreich Ungarn in der Frühen Neuzeit, Güssing, Austria, 20 October 2022.

A. Quaranta. "Medical Negotiations at the Habsburg Courts. Italian Physicians and their Patients in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century." Paper presented at Journée d’études LARHRA-CAK. Faire l’histoire de la médecine à l’époque moderne. Sources, méthodologie et identités, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lyon, Lyon, Lyon, France, 23 September 2021.

A. Quaranta. "The Use of the Senses within the Sixteenth Century Diagnosis and Therapeutics." Paper presented at EAHMH 2019 Conference Sense and Nonsense, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 28 August 2019.

A. Quaranta. "Medici eruditi e terapeutica nella seconda metà del XVI secolo. Un coacervo di risorse e metodi." Paper presented at Attraverso la storia, Padua, Italy, 21 February 2019.

A. Quaranta. "Physicians from Trento and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: the Relationships with the Political power, Patients and Colleagues." Paper presented at International conference ‘Medicine and Health Care in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries among Knowledge, Society and Cultural Exchanges. The Trentino and Other Italian and European Realities’, Trento, Italy, 15 November 2018.

A. Quaranta. "Exile Experiences ‘Religionis Causa’ and the Transmission of Medical Knowledge between Italy and German-speaking Territories in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century." Paper presented at Workshop Fruits of Migration. Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550–1620, Padua, Italy, 28 September 2017.

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