Hot castrated men12/29/2022 ![]() ![]() I was told at Milan that it was Venice at Venice, that it was at Bologna but at Bologna the fact was denied and I was sent to Naples. ![]() I inquired throughout Italy at what place boys qualified for singing by castration, but could get no certain intelligence. He records his efforts to learn where the operations were performed: ![]() ![]() Included along with their yearly stipend we read, “Antonio Santarelli, Master dei Castrati, 14 scudi and Girolamo Coramboni, Second Master dei Castrati, 18 scudi.” A commentary on the history of the hospital written in 1853 notes: “Eight beds were earmarked to receive the unhappy children, who through the most inhuman barbarity of their own parents were for the filthy love of money condemned to emasculation.”Ĭharles Burney, English musician, composer, music historian and author of The present State of Music in France and Italy, or the Journal of a Tour through these Countries undertaken to Collect Material for a General History of Music, 17, has much to say on the subject of castrati. Evidence for this and the toleration afforded the practice by officialdom can be found in an article by Ralph R Landes, “Tommaso Alghisi: Florentine Lithotomist (1669-1713).” 1 The paper lists the surgeons at the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova in the year 1700. One often reads that they were done by “barber surgeons,” but in fact these procedures were performed by surgeons who were favored by the aristocracy and represented the highest echelons of the medical profession. In this second part, we turn to the medical aspects of our subject and questions of by whom and by what methods were these operations performed. The first half of this article was previously published in Hektoen International, Summer 2010 as The castrati: a physician’s perspective, part I Medical aspects The castrati: a physician’s perspective, part 2 January 30, 2017 ![]()
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