Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n°20/2017

Musique italienne et sciences médicales au XIXe siècle

Edited by Céline Frigau Manning

How are we to understand the attention that nineteenth-century medical sciences paid to Italian music, and to some of its emblematic figures? To what extent were such disciplines less interested in specific works than in the musical phenomenon itself, including its effects on the body and the imagination? How did Italian music feed into original medical approaches, or take hold of them? These are some of the questions which are raised in this issue, which thus embarks on a terrain little explored by both the history of medicine and the history of music, by way of three main sections. The first, entitled "Healing With Music", examines the therapeutic experiments conducted in Aversa and Palermo in the first half of the nineteenth century. The second, “Anatomies of the Voice”, focuses on the singer's body, poised between virtuosity and medical knowledge. Finally, the third section explores the question of musical genius as it comes to be medicalised in the eyes of phrenologists or of Cesare Lombroso.

Dossier

Céline Frigau Manning

Peuple d'Italie, « peuple musical » : une question médicale au XIX^e siècle

The "Musical People" of Italy: a Nineteenth-Century Medical Question

I. Soigner par la musique. D'une physiologie des passions aux expérimentations thérapeutiques

Carmel Raz (Music, Columbia University)

Music, theater, and the moral treatment: the Casa dei Matti in Aversa and Palermo

Musique, théâtre et traitement moral : la Casa dei matti d'Aversa et celle de Palerme

Musica, teatro e trattamento morale : la Casa dei matti d'Aversa e quella di Palermo

II. Anatomies de la voix. Le corps du chanteur entre virtuosité et savoirs médicaux

Sarah Hibberd (Music, University of Bristol)

"La Voix humaine": dissecting Luigi Lablache

« La Voix humaine » : Luigi Lablache sous le scalpel

«La Voix humaine»: Luigi Lablache sotto il bisturi

Marco Beghelli (Musica, Università di Bologna)

Un'occasione perduta: lo studio anatomico e fisiologico dei musici castrati

Une occasion manquée : l'étude anatomique et physiologique des castrats

A missed opportunity: the anatomical and physiological study of castrati

III. Le génie médicalisé. Penser l’exceptionnalité du compositeur

Simone Baral (Storia, Università di Torino e Lyon 3)

Un’«armonica e magnifica fronte». La persistenza della frenologia nei discorsi medici italiani intorno al genio musicale

Un « magnifique front harmonique ». La persistance de la phrénologie dans les discours médicaux italiens sur le génie musical

A "magnificent harmonic forehead": the persistence of phrenology in Italian medical discourses on musical genius

Jean-Christophe Coffin (Sciences de l’éducation et psychanalyse, Université Paris 8)

L’exploration du musicien italien à la fin du XIX^e siècle : entre médicalisation et paradoxe

L’esplorazione del musicista italiano alla fine dell’Ottocento: tra medicalizzazione e paradosso

The exploration of the Italian musician at the end of the 19^th century : between medicalization and paradox

Pierangelo Gentile (Storia, Università di Torino)

L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica

L’anomalie Verdi, ou quand le professeur rend les armes : la pensée de Cesare Lombroso sur la musique

The Verdi anomaly, or the professor’s surrender: Cesare Lombroso’s thinking on music

Textes et documents

Céline Frigau Manning

« Cette femme éminente a touché l’âme universelle ». Une théorie médicale du talent de l’actrice-chanteuse dans La Pasta nell’Otello de Luigi Morando De Rizzoni (Vérone, Crescini, 1830)

«Questa esimia colpì l'anima universale». Una teoria medica dell’attrice-cantante ne La Pasta nell’Otello di Luigi Morando De Rizzoni (Verona, Crescini, 1830)

"This eminent woman has touched the universal soul". A medical theory of the actress-singer in Luigi Morando De Rizzoni’s La Pasta nell’Otello (Verona, Crescini, 1830)

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Virgine Vallet

« Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo » : la revue Latitudine et l’engagement des intellectuels napolitains d’après-guerre

«Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo»: la rivista Latitudine e gli intellettuali impegnati nella Napoli del dopoguerra

"Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo": the Latitudine review and the Neapolitan engaged intellectuals of the post-war period

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