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Secrets in Early Modern Medicine by PAU MG is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document provides context about two famous books of secrets published in 1555 that helped popularize the genre. The first was the Secretum secretorum, a Latin work falsely attributed to Aristotle that continued to be popular. The second was I Secreti del reverendo donno Alessio Piemontese, the first book written under the pseudonym "Alessio Piemontese" by Girolamo Ruscelli. This work contained a new type of secrets about remedies, crafts, and the author

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