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The Artes and the Ars moriendi in late renaissance Venice: the professions in Fabio Glissenti's 'Discorsi morali contra il dispiacer del morire, detto Athanatophilia' (1596). (book by 16th century Venetian physician)
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Renaissance Quarterly
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March 22, 1998| Author:
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Sixteenth-century Venetian physician Fabio Glissenti's 1596 volume entitled 'Moral Discourses Against the Displeasure of Dying' probes the humanistic treatment of death and its acceptance. However, Glissenti's voluminous work, which is likely the longest lay treatise on death to come out of renaissance Italy, is more important because of its investigation of the moral and psychological attitudes toward work in early modern culture.
In 1596 the physician Fabio Glissenti published a voluminous treatise on the psychology of death set in his contemporary Venice. As a persuasion to the ...
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