Claudio Azzarito is a MPhil/PhD student at the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. His doctoral project (“The Logic of Diagnosis: Understanding and Predicting Diseases in the Medical School of Padua (1500 – 1600 ca.”) is supervised by Dr. Caroline Petit and is fully funded by the Chancellor’s International Scholarship.

In his research, Claudio will analyse the diagnostic works produced in the context of the 16th century Medical School of Padua. During this period, a new wave of professors of medicine and philosophers independently published original treatises on medical semiotics (examining signs, symbols, and their interpretation) in which novel methods for understanding and diagnosing diseases were proposed.

Claudio obtained both his BA (2019) and MA (2022) in Philosophy from the University of Milan.

His research interests include, but are not limited to, concepts of prognostication in the Middle Ages, with a focus on the Jewish and Arabic philosophical context; the interplay between natural philosophy and medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the long history of ancient medical writings on diagnosis and prognosis; and more broadly the history of medicine from the Antiquity to the Early Modern period.