Questioni di bioetica nel Seicento italiano: Fabio Chigi, Virgilio Malvezzi, Sforza Pallavicino

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Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM - 2017 - 3

Titolo

Questioni di bioetica nel Seicento italiano: Fabio Chigi, Virgilio Malvezzi, Sforza Pallavicino

Autore

Eraldo Bellini

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

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03-2018

Doi

10.26350/000193_000006

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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ln 1642 Fabio Chigi (at that time nuncio in Colonia and some years later Pope as Alexander VII) underwent surgery to resolve his medical problems due to kidney stones (then named «mal di pietra»). Throughout some inedited epistolary documents (stored in the Vatican Library) and the report written by his friend Sforza Pallavicino in Vita di Alessandro VII, we can follow the ethical doubts of the prelate when faced the possibility of new medical practices. The essay provides an accurate account of the events as well as punctual remarks on moral and religious questions raised by the scientific progress, just few years after the Galilean revolution in cosmography and astronomy.