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The «Civilization of Anatomy»: The Genre of Literary Anatomies in Seventeenth-Century Italy is a project developed by the Università della Svizzera Italiana in collaboration with Museo Galileo. It explores how anatomy—starting from Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica—affected the cultural imagery of the early modern period and became a veritable style of thinking which is reflected in the conception and structure of literary texts.
The research focuses on a series of Italian works methodologically inspired by anatomy, collected in a comprehensive collection of “Literary Anatomies” forming an expansive and encyclopaedic textual corpus, which is codified here as a genre of its own for the first time.
The Biblioteca anatomica is a thematic digital library where the texts are structured into curated pathways enriched with detailed scholarly entries and an iconographic apparatus. The platform will be regularly updated with new content, semantic indexes and cross-references thanks to the collaboration of a team of scholars.
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