A Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics Volume 89

by Michele Savonarola

Around 1460, Michele Savonarola - incidentally the grandfather of the even more famous Savonarola, the Florentine prophet Girolamo - produced the extraordinary Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara. This gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric treatise is the first of its kind written in a European vernacular, so that it could be potentially read not only by the learned, who communicated in Latin, but also by pregnant and nursing mothers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164959030X
• ISBN13: 9781649590305
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"