title: [Virility examined: andrology between gynaecology and sexual hygiene in a physician of the XVI century].
abstract: The paper examines ideas, representations and descriptions of male physiology and pathology in a text written by the physician Giovanni Marinello and published in Venice in 1536. Marinello's successful work, written in Italian and entirely devoted to gynaecological problems, is a short guide for women interested in their own health and in the sexual hygiene of their marriages. Tracing a short history of female diseases, the book offers also interesting issues of andrological interest.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Storia della Scienza, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea, Roma, I.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pagano
mesh_terms: D033441:Andrology / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000266:history*; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene / Q000266:history*; D007558:Italy; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000266:history*; D016387:Women's Health