Search results for " 16th"

First Published Record of a Neurosurgical Procedure on the North American Continent, Mexico City, by Pedro Arias de Benavides, 1561:Secretos de Chiru…

2000

The first published account of a neurosurgical intervention performed on the North American continent is described. The operation took place in Mexico City in 1561. The neurosurgical intervention was performed by a Spanish surgeon, Pedro Arias de Benavides, on a 13-year-old boy who had sustained head trauma that caused an open depressed cranial fracture and exposed the cerebrum. A description of this case was first published in Valladolid, Spain, 6 years after the event, in a book entitled Secretos de Chirurgia ("Secrets of Surgery").

Molecular evidence of HLA-B27 in a historical case of ankylosing spondylitis

2005

Investigation of mass graves in the Churchyard of St. Gertrude’s, Riga, Latvia

2011

Maestri e cantieri nella Sicilia interna tra XV e XVI secolo: le chiese Madri di Pietraperzia e Assoro

2014

The essay focuses on two yards of the interior of Sicily between the end of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth century: the mother church of Pietraperzia and that of Assoro. New documentary investigations allowed to set out the master builders involved in the construction process and to deduce some construction methods in use for churches basilica. These data, together with the direct observation of the buildings have allowed to hypothesize, in both cases, the original configuration of the churches. The hypotheses were supported by a comparison with contemporary building, similar to typological characteristics, and a re-reading of the archival documents referring to t…

Las fuerzas no profesionales en los reinos de Sicilia y de Nápoles en los siglos XVI-XVII: la “nuova milizia” y la “milizia del battaglione"

2009

Gli autori analizzano i tentativi di formazione di milizie popolari in Sicilia e nel regno di Napoli tra XVI e XVII secolo come indicatore delle relazioni tra il governo spagnolo, l'aritoscrazia e i poteri locali. The authors analyze the attempts of create a popular militia in the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries as an indicator of relations between Spanish Government, aristocracy and local authorities.

The Body of the Soul. Lucretian Echoes in the Renaissance Theories on the Psychic Substance and its Organic Repartition

2015

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when Aristotelianism still was the leading current of natural philosophy and atomistic theories began to arise, Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura stood out as an attractive and dangerous model. The present paper reassesses several relevant aspects of Lucretius’ materialistic psychology by focusing on the problem of the soul’s repartition through the limbs discussed in Book 3. A very successful Lucretian image serves as fil rouge throughout this survey: the description of a snake chopped up, with its pieces moving on the ground (Lucretius DRN 1969, 3.657–669). The paper’s first section sets the poet’s theory against the background of ancient psychology, pointing out …

Introduzione. Ritratto di città. Palermo musicale tra Cinque e Settecento.

2017

Si traccia brevemente lo stato degli studi sulla musica a Palermo tra Cinque e Seicento, a partire dagli articoli contenuti nel fascicolo, individuando nuove tendenze di ricerca e lacune. This essay aims at reconsidering scholarly studies about musical life in Palermo in 16-17th centuries; new paths of investigation are also discussed.

Graffiti dello Steri di Palermo e conoscenze mediche

2007

The graffiti left by prisoners in the Inquisition gaols of Palermo's represent a testimony of the historical period between 1600 to 1793. In that period, by order of the viceroy Caracciolo, all the testimonies were removed at the same time in which the Inquisition court was suppressed. In this work the historical subdivision between sacred and profane themes is analyzed with the purpose to study human body in an anthropological key as a language in condition of limited freedom and under torture. Many of the profane graffiti are devoted to medical knowledge suggesting that doctors were involved in the activities of this religious court likewise happened in civil courts. Giovanni Filippo Ingr…

Gli ospedali di Palermo e Messina tra XVI e XVII secolo: architettura, servizi e spazio urbano

2021

A competition for the primacy in the Island took place during the 16th century in Palermo and Messina, the two main Sicilian cities at that time, thus establishing the grounds for comparison in architectural and urban construction sites. This assumption is also confirmed in the design of the “places of care” – modern hospitals which both cities were equipped with – with a focus, in addition to the efficiency of the new institutions, to the quality of the architectural image and the urban location.

La vida cotidiana de los vecinos de Manila a través de sus testamentos e inventarios de bienes

2019

With the general objective indicated in its title, this work tries to highlight relevant aspects in the continuity of the Spanish domain in the Philippines, dependent on the maintenance of the Spanish capital. The inevitable selection of topics has lead the preferences of this work towards the residents collaboration to defend the city, the conversion of many of them into traders of exotic products and singular slaves owners, and their collaboration to an incredible miscegenation due to the ethnic variety. On the other hand, to follow the footsteps of the first generation of residents in Manila, at the end of the 16th century and during the 17th century, this work gives us some information …