History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

“A fascinating study of Renaissance physicians as avid readers and enthusiastic writers of all kinds of history: from case narratives and medical biographies to archaeological and environmental histories. In this wide-ranging book, Nancy Siraisi demonstrates the deep links between the medical and the humanistic disciplines in early modern Europe.”
— Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

“This is a salient but little explored aspect of Renaissance humanism, and there is no doubt that Siraisi has succeeded in throwing light onto a vast subject. This is a major book, well written, richly learned and with further implications for more than students of medical history.”
—Vivian Nutton, Professor, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London

“Historians of medicine and of historiography alike will read her book with pleasure and profit.”
—Brian W. Ogilve, Renaissance Quarterly