Preguntan los boticarios, responden los doctoresLa caracterización literaria del boticario en los diálogos de Monardes (1536), Liaño (1546) y Torquemada (1553)
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Instituto Universitario Menéndez Pidal
- Pedro M. Cátedra (dir.)
- Juan Miguel Valero (dir.)
Verlag: Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas y de Humanidades Digitales, IEMYRhd ; Universidad de Salamanca
ISBN: 978-84-121557-0-9, 978-84-121557-4-7
Datum der Publikation: 2021
Titel des Bandes: El Renacimiento literario en el mundo hispánico: de la poesía popular a los nuevos géneros del humanismo
Ausgabe: 4
Seiten: 279-297
Art: Buch-Kapitel
Zusammenfassung
16th century medical themed dialogues were almost obliged to make one of the interlocutors a doctor, a character that has been widely featured in this and other genres of the period. However, the figure of the apothecary has received far less attention. Although less frequent, these professionals were also included in medical themed dialogues, fact that should not surprise us, as this is one of the quintessential professions in the medicine. This paper studies the literary characterization of the apothecaries in three dialogues from the 16th century: Ambrosio in Nicolás Monardes’ Diálogo llamado Pharmacodilosis (1536), Maturino in Juan de Liaño’s Examen de la composición teriacal de Andrómaco (1546) and Dionisio in Antonio Torquemada’s Coloquios satíricos (1553). This analysis tries to clarify how apothecaries are portrayed, how the professional and scientific practices of the time are reflected upon them as well as the way in which their presence is used in literary and argumentative term in the dialogues mentioned, devoting special attention to the particularities and coincidences linked to the affiliation of all of them to the literary dialogue genre.