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Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (printed editions)
- Year
- 1480
- Origin
- Italy · Europe
- Language
- Latin
- Category
- Medical-culinary
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, a versified Latin compendium of dietary and hygienic precepts attributed to the medical school of Salerno, circulated widely in manuscript before entering print around 1480. Numerous fifteenth-century editions followed, often accompanied by the commentary of Arnaldus de Villanova. Its counsel on foods, wines, seasonal eating, and digestion shaped European household and medical thought for centuries, bridging Galenic dietetics and the emerging vernacular literature of healthful cookery.
Cooking from this book
Sage wine
Signature dishSage wine is the emblematic preparation linked to the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval verse manual on healthful living that circulated widely in print from the late fifteenth century. The Salernitan masters celebrated sage as a near-miraculous restorative, and infusing it in wine became a household tonic across Europe. The dish embodies the work's central premise: that food and drink, properly chosen, are inseparable from medicine and longevity.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
