FROM SYPHILIS TO THE CATERPILLAR: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATIVE LITERATURE IN ITALY
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Even if we define popular literature as a category in its own right, considering it a (sub)category of scientific literature, we should note the fact that in almost every century there have been texts on scientific subjects using poetic resources of fiction. However, for centuries their status was dubious. Although these works were not strictly scientific, their aim was to communicate scientific knowledge clearly to the public. They emerged during the scientific revolution and formed the backbone of popular science literature.
Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbo gallico (1530) and Zaccaria Betti's Del Baco da seta, discussed in this study, are excellent examples of how much, if at all, a scientific thesis changes when interpreted through fiction.
History of Literature; popular literature; scientific revolution; cultural history
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