An introduction to Michele Savonarola’s (1385–1446) treatise entitled “Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium et noviter natorum usque ad septennium”

Anna Głusiuk

doi:10.31648/ep.9661

Published: 2023-12-111

No. XXIV/2 (2023)

An introduction to Michele Savonarola’s (1385–1446) treatise entitled “Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium et noviter natorum usque ad septennium”

Anna Głusiuk

Echa Przeszłości

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https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.9661

Abstract

Michele Savonarola’s treatise entitled Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium etnoviter natorum usque ad septennium is one of the most important 15th century Italian works on gynecology,obstetrics and pediatrics. In addition to detailed information about pregnancy, the mother’s lifestyle,childbirth, care of the mother and the child from birth until the age of seven years, the main novelty of thetreatise lies in the use of everyday language and the fact that the work was addressed mainly to women.Recognizing that contemporary women had low levels of knowledge, Savonarola wrote his treatise inplain language that was easy to understand. Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium was toserve as a “guide” to provide women with the necessary knowledge and to reduce mortality amongpregnant women and children.

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Michele Savonarola, treatise, women, pregnancy, offspring

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Głusiuk, A. (2023). An introduction to Michele Savonarola’s (1385–1446) treatise entitled “Ad mulieres ferrarienses de regimine pregnantium et noviter natorum usque ad septennium”. Echa Przeszłości, (XXIV/2), 11–25. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.9661

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