David GENTILCORE

Position
Full Professor
Roles
Member of the Centre's Scientific Committee "THE NEW INSTITUTE: Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)"
E-mail
david.gentilcore@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Storia moderna [HIST-02/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/david.gentilcore (personal record)
 https://www.unive.it/water-cultures
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Office
THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)
Where: Ca' Bottacin

Publications

Year Type Publication
Year Type Publication
2025 Journal Article David Gentilcore The Water Wheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice in TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, vol. 66 (ISSN 0040-165X)
- ARCA card: 10278/5062462
2024 Prefazione/Postfazione David Gentilcore Forward: Health, plague and society in early modern Malta in Carmel Cassar, Health, plague and society in early modern Malta, Kite Group, pp. 1-1 (ISBN 9789918231201)
- ARCA card: 10278/5050260
2024 Curatorship (a cura di) Gaia Bruno, David Gentilcore I disegni e i discorsi di Giovanni Antonio Nigrone «fontanaro e ingegniero de acqua» (1585-1609 ca.). VOLUME SECONDO. Raccolta di saggi a cura di Gaia Bruno e David Gentilcore , Roma, Viella (ISBN 979-12-5469-657-6; 979-12-5469-658-3)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5076481
2023 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore; Egidio Priani Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity during the Long Nineteenth Century , Cham, Springer Nature (ISBN 9783031224959)
- ARCA card: 10278/5004603
2023 Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation David Carmine Gentilcore "Cose rare e ammirande del nuovo mondo". Le piante commestibili americane nell’editoria veneziana tra Cinque e Settecento , Venezia, Marsilio (ISBN 9788829789214)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5042321
2023 Journal Article David Gentilcore In Praise of the Ordinary: Shifting Knowledge and Practice in the Medical Use of Drinking Water in Italy, 1550-1750 in BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, vol. 97 (ISSN 1086-3176)
- ARCA card: 10278/5015702
2023 Book Article David Gentilcore Decadent Infrastructure? Representations of Water in the Kingdom of Naples in the Early Nineteenth Century , Environment and Infrastructures, De Gruyter, vol. studies no 6, pp. 199-229 (ISBN 9783111100647)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5005140
2023 Book Article David Carmine Gentilcore « Et les grenouilles crient de joye ». Laurent Joubert et la qualité des eaux , «Con licenza de’ Superiori». Studi in onore di Mario Infelise, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 135-143 (ISBN 9788869697333)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5042280
2023 Book Article David Gentilcore «La qualità delle acque». Le risorse idriche nel Regno di Napoli agli inizi dell’Ottocento , L’acqua: risorsa e minaccia. La gestione delle risorse idriche e delle inondazioni in Europa (XIV-XIX secolo), Federico II University Press, pp. 161-185 (ISBN 9788868871666)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/5015725
2021 Journal Article David Gentilcore The cistern-system of early modern Venice: technology, politics and culture in a hydraulic society in WATER HISTORY, vol. 13, pp. 1-32 (ISSN 1877-7244)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3743728
2021 Journal Article David Gentilcore Una misteriosa minaccia: la “malattia del sudore” in NUOVA SECONDARIA, vol. 38, pp. 28-31 (ISSN 1828-4582)
- ARCA card: 10278/3735413
2021 Review in magazine David Gentilcore Just the Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water, by Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt London: Kew, 2019 in GASTRONOMICA, vol. 21, pp. 109-110 (ISSN 1529-3262)
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3740805
2020 Journal Article Gentilcore, David From ‘Vilest Beverage’ to ‘Universal Medicine’: Drinking Water in Printed Regimens and Health Guides, 1450–1750 in SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, vol. 33, pp. 683-703 (ISSN 0951-631X)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3722423
2020 Review in magazine David Gentilcore Alberto De Bernardi, Il paese dei maccheroni. Storia sociale della pasta, Roma, Donzelli, x-262 pp., € 32,00 in IL MESTIERE DI STORICO, vol. 12, pp. 151-151 (ISSN 1594-3836)
- ARCA card: 10278/3745371
2020 Book Article David Gentilcore; Egidio Priani ‘San Servolo Lunatic!’: Segregation and Integration in the Life Cycle of Pellagra Patients at Venice’s Provincial Asylums (1842-1912) , Tracing Hospital Boundaries: Integration and Segregation in Southeastern Europe and Beyond, 1050-1970, Brill, pp. 88-111 (ISBN 9789004404427)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725462
2020 Prefazione/Postfazione David Carmine Gentilcore Prefazione in Giancarlo Cerasoli, Mais e miseria. Storia della pellagra in Romagna, Il Ponte Vecchio (ISBN 978-88-6541-964-9)
- ARCA card: 10278/3752598
2019 Journal Article Gentilcore, David “Cool and tasty waters”: managing Naples’s water supply, c. 1500–c. 1750 in WATER HISTORY, vol. 11, pp. 125-151 (ISSN 1877-7236)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3722422
2019 Book Article David Gentilcore Regimens and their readers in eighteenth-century England , Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, John Benjamins, pp. 75-87 (ISBN 9789027203229)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725459
2018 Review in magazine David Carmine Gentilcore Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Il segreto di san Gennaro: Storia naturale di un miracolo napoletano. (Einaudi Storia, no. 69.) Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2016. Pp. xv, 410. €32.00. in THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, vol. Volume 123, Issue 3, pp. 1034-1035 (ISSN 0002-8762)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3752593
2018 Book Article David Gentilcore Americans in Italy: the impact of New World plants, 1500-1800 , The discovery of the New World in Early Modern Italy: Encounters with the Americas, Cambridge University Press, pp. 190-205
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725507
2018 Book Article David Carmine Gentilcore David Gentilcore and Matthew Smith , Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury, pp. 1-11 (ISBN 9781350056862)
- ARCA card: 10278/3752599
2018 Book Article David Gentilcore Dietary change and epidemic disease: fame, fashion and expediency in the Italian pellagra disputes, 1852-1902 , Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury, pp. 53-65 (ISBN 9781350056862)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725457
2017 Book Article David Gentilcore Caught between unorthodox medicine and unorthodox religion: revisiting the case of Costantino Saccardini, charlatan-heretic , Contesting orthodoxy in early modern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57-68 (ISBN 9783319323848)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725738
2016 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Food and Health in Early Modern Europe , Bloomsbury (ISBN 9781472528896)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725456
2016 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Food and Health in Early Modern Europe. Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800 , London, Bloomsbury (ISBN 9781472534972)
- ARCA card: 10278/3742126
2016 Journal Article Gentilcore D. Louis Sambon and the Clash of Pellagra Etiologies in Italy and the United States, 1905-14 in JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES, vol. 71, pp. 19-42 (ISSN 0022-5045)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3725506
2016 Review in magazine David Carmine Gentilcore Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills, eds, New Approaches to Naples, c. 1500–c.1800: The Power of Place, Ashgate: Farnham, 2013; 286 pp., 7 colour plates, 38 b/w illus.; 9781409429432, £70.00 (hbk) in EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY, vol. 46:1 (ISSN 0265-6914)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3752594
2016 Banca dati David Gentilcore Venetian Mental Asylums Database (VMAD), 1842-1912
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725768
2015 Article in Conference Proceedings David Gentilcore Il pane nell’Europa moderna tra dietetica e alimentazione , La civiltà del pane Storia, tecniche e simboli dal Mediterraneo all’Atlantico, CISAM, pp. 459-478, Convegno: La civiltà del pane, 1 - 6 dicembre 2014 (ISBN 9788868090531)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725772
2015 Article in Conference Proceedings David Gentilcore; Egidio Priani Mais, miseria e “mania pellagrosa”: i pazienti del Polesine e Veneti nei manicomi di San Servolo e San Clemente a Venezia (1840-1910) , Il mais nella storia agricola italiana, iniziando dal Polesine, Minelliana, pp. 119-133, Convegno: Atti del Convegno di Studi Badia Polesine (RO), 27 e 28 Settembre 2014 (ISBN 9788865660546)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725769
2014 Review in magazine David Carmine Gentilcore Alvise CORNARO, Writings on the Sober Life: the Art and Grace of Living Long. Introduction and Essay by Marisa MILANI. Translated by Hiroko FUDEMOTO (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014) in FOOD & HISTORY, vol. 12 (ISSN 1780-3187)
- ARCA card: 10278/3752595
2014 Review in magazine David Carmine Gentilcore Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey. Oxford University Press 312pp £65 in HISTORY TODAY, vol. 64 (ISSN 0018-2753)
- ARCA card: 10278/3752596
2014 Review in magazine David Carmine Gentilcore Spectacular miracles. Transforming images in Italy from the Renaissance to the present. By Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser. Pp. 311 incl. 150 black-and-white and colour plates. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. £35. 978 1 78023 105 1. in THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, vol. 65, pp. 908-908 (ISSN 0022-0469)
- URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3752597
2013 Scientific monograph or treatise Gentilcore, David Italiani mangiapatate. Fortuna e sfortuna della patata nel Belpaese , Società editrice il Mulino spa (ISBN 9788815237606)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725745
2013 Book Article David Gentilcore "Con trattenimenti e buffoniane”. Ciarlatani, protomedici e le origini di un gruppo professionale , Interpretare e curare. Medicina nel Rinascimento, Carocci, pp. 189-209 (ISBN 8843069500)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725740
2013 Book Article David Gentilcore "Tempi sì calamitosi": epidemics and public health , A companion to early modern Naples, Brill, pp. 281-306 (ISBN 9789004236707)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725741
2013 Book Article David Gentilcore “Italic scurvy”, “pellarina”, “pellagra”: medical reactions to a new disease in Italy, 1770-1830 , A medical history of skin: scratching the surface, Routledge, pp. 57-69 (ISBN 9781848934139)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725743
2012 Book Article David Gentilcore Purging filth: plague and responses to it in Rome, 1656-57 , Rome, pollution and propriety: dirt, disease and hygiene in the Eternal city from antiquity to modernity, Cambridge University Press, pp. 153-168 (ISBN 9781107014435)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725744
2011 Book Article David Gentilcore Body and soul, or “living physically” in the kitchen , A cultural history of food, volume 4, The early modern age, Oxford, Berg, vol. 4, pp. 143-164 (ISBN 9781474269995)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725930
2011 Book Article David Gentilcore Changement climatique, famine et réforme de l’agriculture: la culture de la pomme de terre en Italie , La pomme de terre de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle, Rennes and Tours: Presses Universitaires, pp. 57-71 (ISBN 9782753513976)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725934
2010 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore La purpurea meraviglia. Storia del pomodoro in Italia , Garzanti (ISBN 8811741009)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725918
2010 Journal Article David Gentilcore The "Levitico", or how to feed a hundred Jesuits in FOOD & HISTORY, vol. 8, pp. 87-120 (ISSN 1780-3187)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725931
2009 Book Article David Gentilcore Malattie, guaritori, istituzioni , Storia dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, vol. x, Ambiente, popolazione, società, Salerno Editrice, vol. 10, pp. 389-426 (ISBN 9788884026385)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725932
2008 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Malattia e guarigione. Ciarlatani, guaritori e seri professionisti , Nardò, Controluce (ISBN 9788862800099)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725916
2008 Banca dati David Gentilcore Italian Charlatans Database, 1550-1800
DOI - URL correlato - ARCA card: 10278/3725915
2006 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy , Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780199245352)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725914
2006 Journal Article David Gentilcore Negoziare rimedi in tempo di peste: alchimisti, ciarlatani, protomedici in ROMA MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, vol. 14, pp. 75-91 (ISSN 1122-0244)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725933
2006 Journal Article David Carmine Gentilcore The ‘Golden Age of Quackery’ or ‘Medical Enlightenment’? Licensed Charlatanism in Eighteenth-Century Italy in CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY, vol. 3, pp. 250-263 (ISSN 1478-0038)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3752627
2002 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Il vescovo e la strega. Sistemi del sacro in terra d'Otranto all'albadell'età moderna , Nardo', Salento Books (ISBN 9788849700954)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725917
1998 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy , Manchester University Press (ISBN 9780719041990)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725913
1997 Journal Article Gentilcore, David Accomodarsi alla capacità del popolo : stategie, metodi e impatto delle missioni nel regno di Napoli, 1600-1800 in MÉLANGES DE L'ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DE ROME. ITALIE ET MÉDITERRANÉE, vol. 109, pp. 689-722 (ISSN 1123-9891)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3726148
1997 Book Article David Gentilcore The organisation of medical practice in Malpighi's Italy , Marcello Malpighi, anatomist and physician, Olschki, pp. 75-110 (ISBN 9788822245441)
- ARCA card: 10278/3730802
1995 Journal Article Gentilcore D. Contesting illness in early modern naples: Miracolati, physicians and the congregation of rites in PAST & PRESENT, vol. 148, pp. 117-148 (ISSN 0031-2746)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5015721
1995 Journal Article Gentilcore D. ‘Charlatans, mountebanks and other similar people’: The regulation and role of itinerant practitioners in early modern Italy in SOCIAL HISTORY, vol. 20, pp. 297-314 (ISSN 0307-1022)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/5015722
1994 Journal Article Gentilcore D. ADAPT-YOURSELVES-TO-THE-PEOPLES-CAPABILITIES + A COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS OF MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN THE POST-TRIDENTINE NEAPOLITAN PROVINCE OF TERRA-DOTRANTO, STRESSING THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY-OF-JESUS - MISSIONARY STRATEGIES, METHODS AND IMPACT IN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES, 1600-1800 in THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, vol. 45, pp. 269-296 (ISSN 0022-0469)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3726129
1994 Journal Article Gentilcore D. ALL THAT PERTAINS TO MEDICINE - PROTOMEDICI AND PROTOMEDICATI IN EARLY-MODERN ITALY in MEDICAL HISTORY, vol. 38, pp. 121-142 (ISSN 0025-7273)
DOI - ARCA card: 10278/3726127
1992 Scientific monograph or treatise David Gentilcore From bishop to witch. The system of the sacred in early modern Terra d'Otranto , Manchester University Press (ISBN 9780719036408)
- ARCA card: 10278/3725904

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