Claudio Zabatta

Biography

Claudio Zabatta is a PhD student in the History and Philosophy of Science programme and the Department of History. He is interested in the history of medicine in early modern Europe and in the intellectual history of medicine and science in that period. He is particularly drawn to how medical concepts and categories transformed between the Middle Ages and the early modern world, and to how learned theory, practical experience, and new forms of natural knowledge shaped one another. Within this field, he has a longstanding interest in the history of cancer and in the role of black bile within humoral theory.

He holds a Master’s degree in Historical Sciences from the University of Bologna. His master’s thesis examined medieval understandings of cancer through the surgeons of the rational surgery tradition, who between the 13th and 14th centuries emphasized practical medicine over theoretical approaches, and explored how they connected the disease to black bile within humoral theory.
He also holds the ITALS Master’s degree in teaching Italian as a foreign language from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where his thesis focused on the use of AI in the writing process.