ルネサンスにおける医学と占星術

2010年4月8-10日のイタリアのヴェネツィアで行われる

アメリカ・ルネサンス学会に占星術と医学に関するセッションを主催します。

その模様をレポートします。

Session: 「ルネサンスにおける医学と占星術」 “Medicine and Astrology in the Renaissance”

Chair: Germana Ernst (University of Rome 3)

1: 「ルネサンスにおける占星術の諸相」 Ornella Pompeo Faracovi (University of Pisa) “Some Aspects of Astrology in the Renaissance”

This paper intends to show how the field of astrological studies participated in the broader Renaissance movement of the recovery of the classical culture in all disciplines of knowledge. The major problem was to secure the faithful reading of classical astrologers, especially Ptolemy, from bad translations, misunderstandings and manipulations proper to the medieval astrology. Pontano, Cardano, Melanchthon and the astrologers of Wittenberg were variously involved in this return of Ptolemy which began in the end of the fifteenth century. The movement was tightly connected with the retune of Albumasar’s theory of the great conjunctions, popular in the late Middle Ages, and with a renewed attention to the analysis of individual personality promoted by genethliac astrology (the Quattrocento found its great interpreter in the person of Marsilio Ficino), in connection with the way of establishing horoscopes equipped with graphics, like those of Gaurico, Cardano and Giuntini.

2: 「末期ルネサンスの占星術医学における分利日の理論」 Giuseppe Bezza (University of Bologna) “The Theory of the Critical Days in the Astrological Medicine of Late Renaissance”

The most fundamental aspect of astrological medicine is the attribution of diverse planets or zodiac signs in relation with houses to different parts of the human body (melotesia). Connecting the network of such combinations with the tables of correspondence between planets and natural things, the iatro-mathematicians of the ancient Egypt tried to find remedies to the diseases of each part of the body. Also important was the division of the evolution of diseases into phases, in which the idea of the critical days, informing the culmination of a disease and the turning towards its recovery, assumed particular relevance. This paper aims to illustrate the presence of these themes in the astrological literature of the Renaissance until the later authors such as Claude Saumaise and Placido Titi.

3: 「アントワン・ミゾーのアスクレピオスとウラニアの『対話』における医学と占星術」 Hiro Hirai (Chemical Heritage Foundation) “Medicine and Astrology in Antoine Mizauld’s Conversation between Asclepius and Urania”

The famous French physician Jean Fernel’s (1497-1558) disciple, Antoine Mizauld (ca. 1512-1578), was a figure very little exploited by scholars. In his medico-philosophical dialogue between Asclepius and Urania, Aesculapii et Uraniae medicum et astronomicum ex colloquio conjugium harmoniam microcosmi cum macrocosmo (Lyon, 1550), he developed a theoretical basis for his astrological medicine. Mizauld published its second revised edition as Harmonia coelestium corporum et humanorum (Paris, 1555), which was then translated as Harmonie des corps célestes et humains (Lyon, 1580), ensuring a wider diffusion of his ideas. The present paper aims to examine its contents especially around the notion of the life-giving cosmic heat.

メイキング風景

2009. 5. 25 月

　 何と！イタリアの占星術史研究の大家、あの、あのですよ Ornella Pompeo Faracovi 氏と、2010年にヴェネツィアで行われるルネサンス学会で「ルネサンスにおける医学と占星術」というセッションを組むことになりました。こんなことってあって良いのでしょうか？まったく夢のようです。今日がアブストラクトの締め切りですので、何とか登録を成功させたいと思います。＞昨日登場した Ｋ 君の協力もあり、何とか間に合いました。ふう。この計画に関係して頂いた皆さまに深く感謝いたします。しかし、来年4月8-10日にイタリアにいてヴェネツィアに来ないルネサンス関係者にはバチが当たりますよ！

Session: “Medicine and Astrology in the Renaissance”

Chair: Germana Ernst (University of Rome 3)

1: Ornella Pompeo Faracovi (University of Pisa) “Some Aspects of Astrology in the Renaissance”

This paper intends to show how the field of astrological studies participated in the broader Renaissance movement of the recovery of the classical culture in all disciplines of knowledge. The major problem was to secure the faithful reading of classical astrologers, especially Ptolemy, from bad translations, misunderstandings and manipulations proper to the medieval astrology. Pontano, Cardano, Melanchthon and the astrologers of Wittenberg were variously involved in this return of Ptolemy which began in the end of the fifteenth century. The movement was tightly connected with the retune of Albumasar’s theory of the great conjunctions, popular in the late Middle Ages, and with a renewed attention to the analysis of individual personality promoted by genethliac astrology (the Quattrocento found its great interpreter in the person of Marsilio Ficino), in connection with the way of establishing horoscopes equipped with graphics, like those of Gaurico, Cardano and Giuntini.

2: Giuseppe Bezza (University of Bologna) “The Theory of the Critical Days in the Astrological Medicine of Late Renaissance”

The most fundamental aspect of astrological medicine is the attribution of diverse planets or zodiac signs in relation with houses to different parts of the human body (melotesia). Connecting the network of such combinations with the tables of correspondence between planets and natural things, the iatro-mathematicians of the ancient Egypt tried to find remedies to the diseases of each part of the body. Also important was the division of the evolution of diseases into phases, in which the idea of the critical days, informing the culmination of a disease and the turning towards its recovery, assumed particular relevance. This paper aims to illustrate the presence of these themes in the astrological literature of the Renaissance until the later authors such as Claude Saumaise and Placido Titi.

3: Hiro Hirai (Chemical Heritage Foundation) “Medicine and Astrology in Antoine Mizauld’s Conversation between Asclepius and Urania”

The famous French physician Jean Fernel’s (1497-1558) disciple, Antoine Mizauld (ca. 1512-1578), was a figure very little exploited by scholars. In his medico-philosophical dialogue between Asclepius and Urania, Aesculapii et Uraniae medicum et astronomicum ex colloquio conjugium harmoniam microcosmi cum macrocosmo (Lyon, 1550), he developed a theoretical basis for his astrological medicine. Mizauld published its second revised edition as Harmonia coelestium corporum et humanorum (Paris, 1555), which was then translated as Harmonie des corps célestes et humains (Lyon, 1580), ensuring a wider diffusion of his ideas. The present paper aims to examine its contents especially around the notion of the life-giving cosmic heat.

2009. 5. 22 金

　 今週の日曜日で来年3月のヴェネツィアでのアメリカ・ルネサンス学会の申し込みは締め切りです。早く何とかしないといけません。なんとか、「医学と占星術」についてセッションを組みたいと思っています。

2009. 5. 18 月

やっとコンチェッタがつかまったので、来年のヴェネツィアでのルネサンス学会のセッションを組む計画と、今やっている論文審査で出てきた疑問を教えてもらいたいと思っていますが、なかなか連絡の取りにくい人なので仕事がしづらいです。皆さん、やっぱり連絡がとりにくい人は、一緒に仕事をするには向きませんよ。

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