Giulio Alessandrini (Latin Julius Alexandrinus or German Julius Alexandrinus von Neustein; 1506 – 25 August 1590) was an Italian physician, author, and poet.

Biography

Giulio Alessandrini was born in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

. He studied philosophy at the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

. He was physician to emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and

Rudolph II Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the Hous ...

. He was a devoted follower of

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of ...

and translated many of Galen's works into

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, adding his own commentary. He died in

Civezzano Civezzano (''Zivezan'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about northeast of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,484 and an area ...

Works

* ''De medicina et medico dialogus.'' Zurich, 1557. * ''In Galeni præcipua scripta, annotationes quæ commentariorum loco esse possunt. Accessit Trita illa de theriaca quaestio.'' Basel, 1581. * ''Pædotrophia carmine'' (1559). * ''Paedotrophia sive de puerorum educatione. Liber ab auctore recognitus. Ejusdem carmina alia.'' Trent, 1586. * ''Salubrium, sive de sanitate tuenda, libri triginta tres.'' Cologne, 1575 — A treatise on hygiene compiled from ancient authors.

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