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This dissertation examines the polemical authorship of a sixteenth century scientific text through a hermeneutical approach that takes into account a unique issue of gender. Published in Madrid under the authorship of a women called Oliva Sabuco, but later claimed by her father Miguel Sabuco—this was evidenced on his will found in 1903—, the Nueva filosofia de la naturaleza del hombre (1587) has given rise to multiple readings marked by its authors gender. The possibility of the female authorship of the Nueva filosofia deserves a careful evaluation of her scientific discourse as a field dominated mainly by men. Meanwhile, the possibility of its male authorship under the mask of a woman, implies a reading of fertile literary overtones. The dynamic reciprocity between author, text, and reader is the main premise of this study on a treatise that proposes, from a textual female voice, a modern psychosomatic approach to human health. Far from finding the real author, in this dissertation I consider the utterance of the proper name as a textual sign that permeates the process of interpretation. The female authorship, either real or forged, of a Renaissance medico-philosophical text sets an immediate net of queries that have to do with the production as well as with the reception of scientific literature. Spanish Golden Age texts need to be particularly read between the lines and from the scope of a heterogeneous culture where ambiguities strongly underlie literary production. Questions are not answered but are critically explored from a theoretical framework based on philology, reception theory, and female authorship. This dissertation challenges the insistence on the monological truth of scientific authority and opens the interpretative possibilities of a scientific text that is fissured by an ambivalent authorship and its multiple readers.
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