[Medicine and university in Naples in the 17th and 18th centuries: a research project]

The teaching of medicine at Naples university in the 17th and early 18th centuries is somewhat difficult to reconstruct, due to the loss of archival evidence. The research project relies on student notes, conserved in Italian libraries and in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine in London. The manuscript notes are likely to shed new light on the little known contents of the medical curricula, as well as contrasting the commonplace of a complete decline of universities as centers of scientific innovation and active debate in the 17th century in Italy.