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De remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies

De remediis utriusque fortunae, a large Latin dialogue in which Reason answers Joy and Sorrow, was compiled in the 1350s–60s and circulated as a remedy-book for both good and bad fortune. In the causal graph this event strengthens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — an improving welfare path.

De remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies
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De remediis utriusque fortunae, a large Latin dialogue in which Reason answers Joy and Sorrow, was compiled in the 1350s–60s and circulated as a remedy-book for both good and bad fortune. It is not a physician’s manual and not a later popular-psychology brand. Invective against a physician is a different, worsening instrument.

Context

Consolation literature is a health-adjacent genre in a plague century. Shared with the ancient moralists he excerpted. Medium confidence on any unique clinical effect; high on the book’s existence. Households later used it as a desk book; those later uses are reception.

Shared responsibility is part of De remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies. Naming Petrarch does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1366-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

It does not replace 1348 plague mortality with a coefficient.

Who was responsible

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

  • Petrarch

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Named author of De remediis. Reason and grief speak in dialogue. Direct on the compilation.

What changed

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

    1. FactDe remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies
    2. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1366 · verified

    • Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.6)

      Observed

      3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.

      Above normal = better

    • Under-five mortality rate (global)

      via Health-System Capacity

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.13 (weight 0.25 × strength 0.5)

      Observed

      37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.

      Above normal = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — PetrarchEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de FranceBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ (opens in a new tab) locates later printed De remediis as a public carrier neighbourhood. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch (opens in a new tab) independently lists the moral-philosophical Latin. Treccani names De remediis.

Established: De remediis as a lifetime Latin compilation. Not established: a unique patient series. Distinct from Invective contra medicum. Reason versus Joy and Sorrow, 1360s compilation, consolation not clinic, not the physician-invective. Official locator https://gallica.bnf.fr/ (opens in a new tab) is not independent locator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Petrarch (opens in a new tab).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Remedies-book is not the attack on Clement’s doctors. Mixed effects of De remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorPetrarch
  2. contributed toFactDe remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies
  3. strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
  4. strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)

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Factrail. (2026). De remediis utriusque fortunae compiled as a dialogue-book of remedies. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-de-remediis

https://factrail.ai/facts/pet-de-remediis

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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