Wine and landscape in the Salerno Medical School

Abstract

Wine and landscape of the Salernitana Medical School unites two great cultural containers. Avicenna puts them in relation in the Commentary of chapter X of the most famous and longest-lived text of Salerno, the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (3.1 Doct. 2. chapter 8). He emphasizes the importance of wine being produced in an airy hilly area, facing south and with a temperate climate, already defining a landscape because the rows of vines then as now build landscapes.