The reception of Celsus' 'De medicina' from the middle ages to the modern era

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My project addresses the reception of Celsus' De medicina, which consists in eight book on Hippocratic medicine thatwere written in Latin in the first century AD. Its tradition concerns the history of medicine from antiquity to the modern era.I will focus on the main steps in the transmission of Celsus' text to explain different readings and the different purposes itwas employed for. By examining the manuscripts copied in Nonantola in the ninth and tenth century, I will address therole of monastic scriptoria and I will provide insights on medieval medical knowledge and bookmaking. Fifteenth-centuryFlorence is another crucial step in De medicina's history, as it was printed there for the first time in 1478. The membersof the Florentine Academia compared manuscript exemplars and debated on the editio princeps' philological accuracyand Celsus' identity. In addition to exploring the role of humanists and physicians in the printing house, my project willshed new light on the circulation of printed medical knowledge by taking into consideration the material spread of books,epistolary correspondence, and oral communication. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, readers of De medicinahighlighted its medical and surgical contents and erudite medical circles fostered philosophical interpretations. Toaddress this themes, I will focus on the works of a few important authors in the Paduan and Bolognese medical arena,namely Falloppio, Malpighi, and Morgagni.