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The 1471 Opera prints Remedia amoris as a public counter-manual

The Bologna Opera includes Remedia amoris, a printed counter-didaxis against lovesickness. In the causal graph this event strengthens Infectious-Disease Transmission, a driver that weakens Life expectancy at birth — a worsening welfare path.

The 1471 Opera prints Remedia amoris as a public counter-manual

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The Bologna Opera includes Remedia amoris, a printed counter-didaxis against lovesickness. The dated carrier is 1471. It is not a clinic and not a verified medical protocol.

Context

A poem about curing desire is a low-confidence health-adjacent teaching path: it names lovesickness as something that can be unlearned. It does not staff a hospital.

Ovid is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A remedia book is not a pharmacopoeia. Keep the lag.

A remedia book is not a pharmacopoeia. Keep the lag.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Ovid

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Dated act under Ovid as transmitted author or later named subject. Printers, censors, and museums share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to OvidCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.ISTC — Ovid Opera, Bologna, Balthasar Azoguidus, 1471Consortium of European Research Libraries · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorOvid
  2. contributed toFactThe 1471 Opera prints Remedia amoris as a public counter-manual
  3. strengthensDriverInfectious-Disease Transmission
  4. weakensIndicatorLife expectancy at birth

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Factrail. (2026). The 1471 Opera prints Remedia amoris as a public counter-manual. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-remedia-print-1471

https://factrail.ai/facts/ov-remedia-print-1471

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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