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Corpus veluti spongia: пневматология инфекционных болезней в литературе «Советов по борьбе с чумой» XIV-XV вв.
The article draws on a series of 14th-15th centuries medical texts which belong to the genre called «Advises against the plague».Our study demonstrates how the half forgotten Tuscan physicians – Gentile da Foligno, Franceschino da Collignano, Niccolò da Burgo – put forward the «pneumatological» etiology of the infections (conception of the «corrupted air» and infection of the spiritus); we set forth the hypothesis according to which this problematization of this intermediary level between the spiritual and the corporeal will largely contribute to the constitution of the «twinkling» idiom of the Marsilio Ficino's platonicizing medicine.