La censura inquisitorial en las Centurias de Amatus Lusitanus

Abstract

We analyse the inquisitorial censorship expressed in expurgations of some excerpts of the Centuriae of Medicinal Cures, authored by the Portuguese physician João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco (1511-1568), better known as Amatus Lusitanus. Our sources were the Centuriae II, III and IV (bound together, Florence, 1551) and the Centuria VII (Venice, 1566), both kept in the General Library of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. For the reconstitution of the texts we resorted to other editions available online and to the modern Portuguese translation, prepared from the Bordeaux edition of 1620. We conclude that most of the censored excerpts refer to affections of sexuality, gynaecology and obstetrics, the remaining being related to matters of strictly religious nature.

Livros Médicos do Renascimento: Tesouros do Conhecimento

“…- Alguns destes textos estão censurados, provavelmente pela Inquisição, uma vez que as obras de Amato estiveram nos Indice de livros proibidos. 21 Por sua vez, Garcia de Orta estudou Medicina em Salamanca e Alcalá de Henares, em Espanha. Foi professor na Universidade de Lisboa.…”