Dalla filosofia dell'amore all'etica della malattia: fortuna di una sententia platonica

Abstract

The only surviving medical work written by Antonius Galateus, the pamphlet De podagra, deals simultaneously with the pathology of disease and its remedies, and its intellectual implications, thus offering a text with strong literary connotations. The article aims to contextualize the Platonic source (Symposium 219a) recalled in the first lines of the treatise and to trace Galateus' readings within his ethical humanism.