Malattia D'amore File

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, physicians treated love not as a metaphor, but as a pathological condition of the "estimative faculty".

Today, "Malattia d'amore" survives more as a cultural and artistic trope than a medical diagnosis. Malattia d'amore

: Medieval medical texts, such as those by Avicenna, suggested the brain was "misled" into believing one specific person was more noble and desirable than all others, causing the spirit to "wander through emptiness". In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, physicians treated