Medicine and politics in Francesco Patrizi: the Body of The Happy City
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2015.15Keywords:
Patrizi, Political thought, Medicine, Renacimiento, Filosofía, Aristotle, Platonism, Spiritus, FicinoAbstract
Besides some disagreements, La città felice of Francesco Patrizi has usually been considered both as a work belonging to the utopian genre of sixteenth century or as a philosophical portrait of the real Venice. In this essay, I maintain, instead, that La città felice was born in Patrizi’s mind from his attempt to support the Aristotelian political, aristocratic, order and to justify it according to the principles of the philosophical and Platonic medicine of Marsilio Ficino. Such an attempt led him to describe the polis as a human body, applying the Hippocratic-Galenic system to explain its internal functions and considering that the political order of the city arises from the civic body’s needs for maintaining the quantity and quality of natural, vital and animal spiritus.
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