April 2010 Events

The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) will hold its Fifty-sixth annual Meeting in Venice, Italy, 8-10 April 2010.

The Institute will sponsor a panel entitled "Printing Greek Medicine in Venice in the Renaissance", included in the morning session (9:00-10:30am), on Saturday, April 10th. As the title already suggests, the papers presented will deal with the printing of Greek medicine in Venice, with a special focus on the search, production, circulation, and collection of books in the milieu of scholars and printers. The session will provide a unique opportunity to gather scholars specialized in this field, who, in the wonderful Venician setting, will present their most recent research on the collections from which the manuscripts used by printers came, the networks through which they were obtained, the commission from which they resulted and the programs of which they were a part. This will widen the perspective and will contribute to a reconstruction of the whole milieu at the origin of these editions: the scholars, their collections, their contacts, the copyists working for them and sometimes with them, their programmes and their attempts to compensate for the lacunas of the text availability, and any other element that contributed to this incredible enterprise which was the printing of Greek medicine in Venice.