This work is a compilation of texts by Arnau de Vilanova, who was probably the most influential physician of the medieval Latin world. Arnau wrote fundamental treatises for European medicine of his time, including texts on general pathology, and played a prominent role in the political and religious debates of his era.
Published in 1532 under the title “Opera Nuperrime”, this compilation includes Arnau de Vilanova’s commentary on Galen’s “De inaequali intemperie”, Mayno de Mayneri’s “Regimen sanitatis”, the “Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum”, and his translation of Kustā ibn Lūka’s “De phisicis ligaturis”.
After his death, Arnau de Vilanova was remembered as one of the great thinkers of his time: physician to kings and popes, a visionary in the field of medicine, and a critic and intellectual who contributed significantly to the currents of thought that shaped medieval and Renaissance Europe.