Sabrina MINUZZI

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Subject expert
E-mail
sabrina.minuzzi@unive.it
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/sabrina.minuzzi (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities

Teaching activity current year

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Activities and research skills

Publication highlights

Sabrina Minuzzi Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy , Gendered Touch: Women and Scientific Practice in early modern Europe, Leiden, Brill, vol. 9, pp. 119-158 (ISBN 978-90-04-51260-3; 978-90-04-51261-0) (ISSN 2405-5077)
DOI - URL correlato 2022, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/3747009

Minuzzi S. 15th-century practical medicine in print: Beyond the profession, towards the miscere utile dulci in NUNCIUS, vol. 36, pp. 199-263 (ISSN 0394-7394)
DOI 2021, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3746888

Sabrina Minuzzi La peste e la stampa : Venezia nel XVI e XVII secolo , Venezia, Marsilio, pp. 1-124 (ISBN 978-88-317-4458-4)
2020, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/3746953

Soukand R.; Mattalia G.; Kolosova V.; Stryamets N.; Prakofjewa J.; Belichenko O.; Kuznetsova N.; Minuzzi S.; Keedus L.; Pruse B.; Simanova A.; Ippolitova A.; Kalle R. Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe in JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY, vol. 247, pp. 112254 (ISSN 0378-8741)
DOI - URL correlato 2020, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3723091

Sabrina Minuzzi La stampa medico-scientifica nell’Europa del XV secolo. Con cenni sulla fruizione dei libri di materia medica e ricettari , Printing r-evolution and society, 1450-1500 : fifty years that changed Europe, Venezia, Eidizioni Ca' Foscari, vol. 13, pp. 199-251, Convegno: Printing R-Evolution 1450-1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe, 2018 - 2019 (ISBN 978-88-6969-333-5; 978-88-6969-332-8) (ISSN 2610-9883)
DOI 2020, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/3747058

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Curriculum vitae

Sabrina Minuzzi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow in Early Modern History at Ca' Foscari and at Brown University (Providence). With Mario Infelise and Harold J. Cook she is developing her interdisciplinary project MAT-MED in Transit. The Transforming Knowledge of Healing Plants, which interweaves the study of the circulation of naturalia with that of the reception of related medical-scientific knowledge through the object book.

After graduating in Italian Studies from Ca' Foscari, she worked for several years in conservation libraries and archives, acquiring extensive experience in the field, supported by academic specialisations (Diploma of Archivista di Stato in Venice, Diploma of Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari in Rome).

In 2012 she got her PhD in Historical and Anthropological Sciences in Verona with a research on the pharmaceutical practices of empirics and professionals who juggled domestic medicine and the medical marketplace. During her four-year postdoc at Oxford University she investigated the history of medicine in the delicate period of transition from manuscript to print.

Her research sometimes turned into books:

- Sul filo dei segreti. Farmacopea, libri e pratiche terapeutiche a Venezia in età moderna (Milano: Unicopli, 2016)
- Inventario di bottega di Antonio Bosio veneziano (1646-1694). Catalogo delle edizioni e delle incisioni (Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2013)
- Il secolo di carta. Antonio Bosio artigiano di testi e immagini nella Venezia del Seicento (Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2009)

Editing [selection]

  • Printing Medical Knowledge: Vernacular Genres, Reception and Dissemination, Special Issue of "Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science" (Brill),  2/2021 [Introduction, 193-197]
  • La peste e la stampa. Venezia nel XVI e XVII secolo (Venezia: Marsilio, 2020)
  • The Invention of the Author. The Privilegio in Renaissance Venice (Venice: Marsilio, 2017)

Articles [selection]

  • 'Women in Secrets: Medical Inventions between Household, Guilds and Small Scale-Economy', in Antonella Romano, Paolo Savoia, Francesca Antonelli (eds), Gendered Touch: Women and Scientific Practice in early modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, in print)
  • '15th century Practical Medicine in Print: Beyond the Profession, towards the miscere utile dulci', Nuncius (Brill), 2/2021, 199-263
  • 'Quick to say quack. Medicinal secrets from the household to the apothecary’s shop in early eighteenth-century Venice', Social History of Medicine,  2019/1, 1-33 [2020 J. Worth Estes Prize (Annual award for the best published paper in the history of pharmacology during the previous two years)]
  • 'Tommaso Giannotti Rangone: a life modeled on books and (not just medical) art', in Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto’s Venice, ed. by C. Klestinec and G. Matino (Venice: Marsilio, 2018), 43-57
  • 'Fra storia e invenzione letteraria: nuovi documenti su Francesco Fulvio Frugoni e il Cane di Diogene', Studi Secenteschi, LVI (2015), 169-209
  • 'Un editore artista e artigiano del libro', in Neri Pozza editore d’alta cultura (Vicenza: Biblioteca Bertoliana, 2012), 28-33 and Ivi, Catalogo della mostra, 41-57
  • 'L’archivio storico Neri Pozza', La fabbrica del libro, 1/2004, 34-41