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Genre/Form: | Early works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ferrand, Jacques, médecin. Treatise on lovesickness. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1990 (OCoLC)606904751 |
Named Person: | Jacques Ferrand; Jacques Ferrand, médecin.; Jacques Ferrand; Jacques Ferrand |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacques Ferrand; Donald Beecher; Massimo Ciavolella |
ISBN: | 0815624670 9780815624677 0815625324 9780815625322 |
OCLC Number: | 19511413 |
Language Note: | Translation of: Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. |
Notes: | Translation of: Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. Includes indexes. |
Description: | xvi, 709 pages ; 24 cm |
Other Titles: | Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. |
Responsibility: | Jacques Ferrand ; translated and edited and with a critical introduction and notes by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. |
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A monumental work of scholarship. An exemplary critical edition of Ferrand's treatise of 1610 on erotic melancholy, preceded by an introductory essay (of nine chapters) in which they examine the place of erotic ideas in Renaissance culture. . . . A compendium of 2,000 years of ideas about love. Ferrand was one of the last great encyclopedists, and we owe a huge debt to the two distinguished scholars who have undertaken the immense task of translating and editing his engaging treatise. . . . A unique summa on erotomania and a work destined to become a classic. An impressive tome that marks indeed a milestone in our knowledge of sexology. Whatever their field (medicine, astrology, Petrarchan poetry) and whatever the literature/culture which they are studying (French, Italian, English), all scholars will find A Treatise on Lovesickness of immense value. The welcome appearance of this fine edition whets the appetite for a full investigation of the subsequent history of the medical discourse on the erotic. Read more...

