In the sixteenth century, even medicine, like the other disciplines of the Renaissance, went back to the ancient texts and knowledge and, along with these, the use of waters for therapy. The Library of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Padova has the first edition of an exemplary work in this respect: De balneis, published in Venice in 1553 by Tommaso Giunta (digital copy). It was, in fact, an anthology of more than 70 authorities in the medical field, who present a broad history of balneotherapy. In the compendium of Hippocrates’ and Galen’s positions on baths, there is an elegant illustration of a Roman bath. The work contains an exact description of some two hundred thermal places known at that time. Among these, in Italy, are Montecatini, Caldiero, Pozzuoli, Ischia, Petriolo, Porretta.

There is also much space dedicated to the thermal place near Padua in the anthology:

> The thermal baths of the Euganean Hills