Cave coitum! Thurzó Zsigmond, váradi püspöknek címzett egészségügyi intelmek Antonio Gaziótól = Cave coitum! Antonio Gazio’s Health Advice Addressed to Sigismund Thurzó, the Bishop of Várad

Molnár, Dávid (2025) Cave coitum! Thurzó Zsigmond, váradi püspöknek címzett egészségügyi intelmek Antonio Gaziótól = Cave coitum! Antonio Gazio’s Health Advice Addressed to Sigismund Thurzó, the Bishop of Várad. In: Sodalitates quondam et nunc. Tudós társaságok egykor és ma. Convivia Neolatina Hungarica (6). Lazi Könyvkiadó; ELTE HTK Irodalomtudományi Kutatóintézet, Szeged, pp. 149-160. ISBN 9789632676937

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Cave coitum! Antonio Gazio’s Health Advice Addressed to Sigismund Thurzó, the Bishop of Várad. This paper examines the health advice titled De tuenda et proroganda viridi ac florida iuventa, written by Antonio Gazio in 1508. The manuscript was addressed to Sigismund Thurzó, the Bishop of Várad. The codex, which has likely been lost over the past century, aimed to preserve the vitality and youthful vigour of the 43-year-old bishop. Gazio devoted the Chapter 20 to the nocuous health effects of baths and sexual activity. It is possible that the bishop valued this chapter less, or perhaps did not even understand it, since – according to Gazio’s experience – it mostly affects married men with especially beautiful women. This paper, so that not only Sigismund Thurzó may know the secret, now summarizes for everyone’s edification what Gazio considered worth knowing about the health effects of mainly harmful sexual activity. To analyze the text, we also compare it with eight chapters from Gazio’s principal work, Corona florida, which addresses this topic in greater detail. | This paper examines the health advice titled De tuenda et proroganda viridi ac florida iuventa, written by Antonio Gazio in 1508. The manuscript was addressed to Sigismund Thurzó, the Bishop of Várad. The codex, which has likely been lost over the past century, aimed to preserve the vitality and youthful vigour of the 43-year-old bishop. Gazio devoted the Chapter 20 to the nocuous health effects of baths and sexual activity. It is possible that the bishop valued this chapter less, or perhaps did not even understand it, since – according to Gazio’s experience – it mostly affects married men with especially beautiful women. This paper, so that not only Sigismund Thurzó may know the secret, now summarizes for everyone’s edification what Gazio considered worth knowing about the health effects of mainly harmful sexual activity. To analyze the text, we also compare it with eight chapters from Gazio’s principal work, Corona florida, which addresses this topic in greater detail.

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