The ten contributions gather interdisciplinary analyses on the how\u2019s and why\u2019s of Montaigne\u2019s interest in thermal practices. In their consideration, they associate history of literature and history of medicine, with particular attention to documents of the era, to evidence of readings and readers, to uses and customs; and also to six and seventeenth-century studies on thermal baths, to the practice of \u2018travel\u2019 for curative purposes, to habits, hopes and disenchanted looks of travellers and of the travelling Montaigne
