Iolanda Ventura

I am Associate Professor of Medieval Latin. I worked at the Universities of Münster, Nancy, Louvain-la-Neuve, Orléans, held the «Chaire Mixte d’Excellence CNRS» in History of Science, and am fellow of the «Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes» (CNRS). I work on Medieval medicine and pharmacology, and encyclopedias. I work on the critical edition of the Circa instans, a history of Medieval pharmacology, and an inventory of medical manuscripts. I published the critical editions of the Tractatus de herbis and of parts of the De proprietatibus rerum (cf. CV), and participate in international research projects, such as «PRIN 2020: The Latin Middle Ages. A comprehensive bibliographic repertory of writers, texts and manuscripts»; «PRIN 2022: Books of Science. Vernacular Mathematics and Medicine Books in Fourteenth Century Italy», and the ERC Project «UseFool. Knowledge and Manipulation of Nature between Usefulness and Deception in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition (9^th – 15^th century)».