Bibliography:AKC Bibliography 0298

Cavicchi, Camilla. La scena di iatromusica nella Phonurgia Nova di Athanasius Kircher. (2013).

Name(s)	Cavicchi, Camilla
Title	La scena di iatromusica nella Phonurgia Nova di Athanasius Kircher
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Year	2013
Language(s)	ita
Contained in	Medicina & storia, 13 (2013), 75-88
Bibliographic level	Paper in journal
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Digitization	http://www.academia.edu/5964880/La scena di iatromusica nella Phonurgia Nova di Athanasius Kircher Medicina and Storia

Abstract

With the aim of deepening our knowledge of tarantism’s iconographic tradition, the contribution studies the scene of the Typus Tarantiacorum Saltantium published by Athanasius Kircher within his Phonurgia Nova (1673). With this image Kircher intended to offer a visual contribution to the understanding of the powerful effects of music. Differently from other mythical narratives of music therapy, the case of tarantism allowed him to concretely demonstrate the effectiveness of the musical method. In the iatromusical scene from his Phonurgia Nova, though, characters are represented not in a realistic context, but rather in a mythical-Arcadic dimension. Kircher may have made this choice with the scope of legitimating the folk tradition, by projecting it into the horizon of antiquity.