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Men’s health: Renaissance medicine and the male body

Valeria Finucci: The Prince’s body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance medicine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History), 2015, vii + 273 pp, 39.95$ HB

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Savoia, P. Men’s health: Renaissance medicine and the male body. Metascience 25, 255–258 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0088-3

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