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A NICODEMITE, ETHERODOX RELIGIOUS DECLARATION DISGUISED IN THE FORM OF A PHILOSOPHICAL-MEDICAL TREATISE DEDICATED TO AN INQUISITOR 4to (245x175 mm). [8], 55, [1 blank] leaves. Collation: *-**4 A-O4. With the printer's device on the title page. Roman and Greek types. Contemporary flexible vellum with inked title on spine and lower edge (small losses to spine). Skillfully repaired worm track to the inner upper margin of a few leaves at the beginning of the volume, a couple of quires slightly browned, all in all a very good, genuine copy with wide margins. Rare first edition (a second was issued in Altdorf by Nikolaus Knorr in 1587 and a third in Leiden by Joannes Maire in 1635) of this treatise on how to bear injuries and find a remedy against wrath. By the time Donzellini's wrote his last work, he had been through repeated examinations and torture at the hand of the Inquisition, but also over the course of his life he had received many injuries for his religious beliefs and from his medical enemies upon which to reflect. Under the compulsion of wrath, humans behave as beasts. Donzellini asserts that nothing is more harmful to humans than anger and the lust for vengeance. His treatise evokes interest because of the manner in which he selectively interwove the ideas of others. He was not the first author to have considered the subject of man's response to injuries. Aristotle, the Peripatetics, Stoics and Epicureans had addresses this issue, but not a central concern for them as it was for Donzellini (cf. C.L. Redmond, Girolamo Donzellino, Medical Science and Protestantism in the Veneto, Stanford, CT, 1984, pp. 198-231).?Donzellini's interest in Paracelsianism needs to be contextualised against the backdrop of the physician's philosophical attitude and his fascination with Hermeticism and emanationism. In this respect, Donzellini's most significant philosophical output is his Remedium ferendarum iniuriarum, sive de compescenda ira. Drafted in 1586, only a year before his execution, this tract offers both physical and philosophical analysis of the issue of anger. The stated aim of the work is to promote values of temperance, concord, and love among men by teaching forgiveness and tolerance of offences. To this end, the text blends philosophy, theology, and medicine, with a marked emphasis on the former two. Due to its hybrid nature, the density of its content, and the time of its drafting, the Remedium is an excellent anthology of Donzellini's philosophical, religious, and medical ideas. It reveals the extent and manner in which his intellectual profile was influenced by these different aspects. Moreover, it showcases his propensity for a humanist religion that took on potentially subversive overtones in the late Cinquecento. These radical implications and the choice of subject matter suggest that the tract was drafted as a militant work. In this sense, its call to conquer irascibility takes shape as a metaphor for the desire to overcome confessional disputes and the defence of religious tolerance. The text was published by Francesco Ziletti, a printer who played various roles in Donzellini's network [?] The Remedium was a complex text because it could be used and interpreted on different levels and offered a variety of approaches for analysing the subject of anger and bearing injuries. It joined a series of humanist treatises on wrath, with a flurry of works produced during the sixteenth century: the philosopher Agostino Nifo, the physician Johann Weyer and, later, Justus Lipsius and Michel de Montaigne all wrote on the matter, often absorbing the influence of Plutarch's De cohibenda ira (On the Control of Anger) and Seneca's De ira (On Anger). For Girolamo, however, the theme of bearing injustice also struck a personal chord. After all, he had been persecuted, imprisoned, and deprived of the dignity of his profession on two occasions. He explained in the Remedium that surrendering to rage ? the most dangerous of all passions. N° de ref. del artículo bc_11351
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