Una tappa della fortuna del Galeno latino: l’Examen de ingenios di Juan Huarte (1575)

Juan Huarte’s Examen de ingenios para la sciencias, the work of a Spanish physician aiming at systematizing the correspondences between temperaments, mental faculties and cognitive attitudes, reached in a few decades a large audience all over Europe and contributed to the diffusion of Galenism in disciplines other than medicine for at least two centuries. In this article we assess, through comparison and exclusion, which Latin translations of Galen were read and quoted by Huarte, and which was the edition of Galen’s work which he made reference to. This assessment aims at being a starting point for further research on the reuse of Galen in Huarte’s text and, in perspective, on the formation of a common core of Galenic “lieux communs” across European reflection on education, politics and the organization of human society.