Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 18

by Gabriele de Zerbis and L.R. Lind

Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505), born in Verona of an old patrician family, was a remarkable medical man & anatomists of his time. He probably studied at the University at Padua, where he began to teach medicine in 1467, having obtained the doctorate at the age of 22. He then taught medicine & logic at the University of Bologna, lived & worked in Rome, & finally returned to Padua. Maximianus the Etruscan, as he calls himself, lived in Rome in the age of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871691825
• ISBN13: 9780871691828
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 346 Pages