Storie di titoli di scritti ippocratici e loro traduzioni tra antichità e modernità.

Abstract

The paper aims to present through case studies the history of the titles of some writings belonging to the Hippocratic Corpus with particular regard to their translations into ancient and modern languages. This investigation is of some relevance in order to understand the historical conditions under which Hippocratic treatises were transmitted. In this connection, a relation can be shown between the translated titles of the writings considered on the one side (among them in the first instance de genitura/de natura pueri and de aeribus) and on the other side the ways in which their contents have been transmitted through scientific language in the various historical contexts.