The Immediate and Long Term Fortune of De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (1700 - 1713) by Bernardino Ramazzini
Authors
Francesco Carnevale
University of Florence, I
Keywords:
Bernardino Ramazzini, De Morbis Artificum Diatriba, History , Fortune , Occupational Health
Abstract
No any other classical and modern medical text had a fortune comparable to the Ramazzini’s De Morbis Artificum Diatriba. The number and distribution of new editions, translations, quotations and emulations illustrate the long-term fortune of the work. In the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries a “differential impact” of Ramazzini’s De morbis developed all over Europe, due to different cultural, industrial and economical contexts in which the work conquered its fame. This article analyses in particular dictionaries and academic dissertations contributing, between XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, to the spreading of Ramazzini’s work.
