Title:

Medicine and body disabilities in the poems and epigrams by Albert Ines

Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

Creator:

Buszewicz, Elwira (1962– )

Institutional creator:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2020

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Location:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Subject and Keywords:

neo-Latin poetry ; Jesuit poetry ; Albert Ines ; medicine in literature

Abstract:

Albert Ines (1619–1649) was one of the most important Polish-Latin poets of the 17th century. The subject of this text is the handling of the themes of medicine, health and disease in his work on the example of odes (“Lyricorum centuria”) and the collection of epigrams. The article analyses his disparaging jokes about physicians, popular in Roman and Greek tradition, and onomastic jokes about health and caricatural imagery of the body, i.e. obesity, lack of teeth, baldness or wigs. It also points at the figures of speech pertaining to the portrayal of the frailty of the human condition.

Relation:

Analecta : studia i materiały z dziejów nauki polskiej

Volume:

29 (2020)

Issue:

2

Start page:

167

End page:

183

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Journal

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

1509-0957

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Original in:

Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS

Access:

Open