Philoteo Elianus Montaltus Lusitanus two sides of the same coin: The man and his work

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Published: Dec 28, 2016

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  • Florbela Veiga Frade Researcher at the Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade dos Açores Researcher and Portuguese Member of COST action IS1319 – Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800
Vol. 65 (2016), Articles, pages 83-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30827/meahhebreo.v65i0.703
Submitted: Jan 24, 2020 Published: Dec 28, 2016
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Filipe Rodrigues, a.k.a. Elias Montalto, was one of several Portuguese doctors in Medicine with international recognition in the Early Modern Age that were forced to run from Inquisition. Montalto’s legacy was quite a few different works and among those was one of religious controversial about Isaiah 53 which had great diffusion in the Sephardic communities through the World – the remaining works are about medical themes, namely Archipathologia precursor in Psychiatry and cited by the leading doctors and scholars on the Medicine vanguard at that time. This paper analyses the figure of Filipe Rodrigues ant the context of his work.

 

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Religious polemics, Archipathologia, Medicine Books, Filipe Rodrigues/Elias Montalto, Portuguese Jews

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Veiga Frade, F. (2016). Philoteo Elianus Montaltus Lusitanus two sides of the same coin: The man and his work. Miscelánea De Estudios Árabes Y Hebraicos. Sección Hebreo, 65, 83–100. https://doi.org/10.30827/meahhebreo.v65i0.703