The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine by Valeria Finucci

The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine

Valeria Finucci

273 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today's celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern pe...

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