Gian Giacomo Adria
Gian Giacomo Adria or Adria Johannes Jacobus de Paulo (born in Mazara del Vallo in Sicily c. 1485 - died in Palermo in 1560) was an Italian physician, historian and humanist.
Biography[edit]
He first studied in Mazara del Vallo with the humanist Tommaso Schifaldo,[1] then moved to Palermo, where he studied rhetoric. He then went to Naples where he worked with Agostino Nifo.[2]
On 29 June 1510, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine in Salerno.[3] He began to practise the medical profession in Sicily.
In 1535, he took part in the conquest of Tunis as a physician and was made an Imperial Knight by Charles V. On his return to Rome, he took care of Pope Clement VII. He was appointed Protomedicus of Sicily.[2]
He died at the age of 75 in Palermo where he was buried in the church San Francesco d'Assisi, Palermo, where the following epitaph can be read:[3]
Hic jacet in suo sepulcro excellens Artium, et Medicinae Doctor Johannes Jacobus Adria de Paulo Siculus et Mazariensis Miles, et Medicus Imperialis, Siciliae Protomedicus, et concivis Panormitanus anno 1560.
Works[edit]
He wrote several works of a historical-scientific, literary and poetic nature.
Scientific works[edit]
- De fluminibus Selinunti et Mazaro. 1513.
- Topographiae inclitae Civitatis Mazariae. Palermo: Johan et Antonium Papam. 1515.
- De laudibus Siciliae et primo de Valle Mazariae. 1535.
- De praeservatione pestilentiae ad Antonium filium.
- De Phlebotomia ad Carolum Imperatorem.
- De Balneis sicilis ad Antonium filium.
- De Medicinis ad varios morbos hominum.
- De vita sanctorum Martyrum mazariensium.
Literary works[edit]
- De laudibus virtutis. 1515..
- Epistola ad coniugem. Palermo: Antonium de Mayda. 1516.
- Epistola versu elegiaco ad coniugem Antoniam Scherinam. 1528.
- De laudibus Christi contra haereticos. 1529.
- In libellum de laudibus Christi explanatio. 1538.
- Liber de passione Christi. 1538.
- Historia Sicula M.S.
- Legenda SS. Viti, Modesti, et Crescentiae ad Mazariensis.
Manuscripts[edit]
The following manuscripts are kept in the Municipal Library of Palermo :
- De situ vallis Mazariae ad Hectorem Pignatelli Proregem.
- Litoralia Siciliae de Peloro ad Lylibaeum.
References[edit]
- ^ Noakes, Susan; Kaster, Robert A. (1983). "Tommaso Schifaldo's "Libellus de indagationibus grammaticis"". Humanistica Lovaniensia. 32: 107–156. ISSN 0774-2908.
- ^ a b ADRIA, Gian Giacomo entry (in Italian) by Roberto Zapperi in the Enciclopedia italiana (1960).
- ^ a b Ortolani, Giuseppe Emanuele (1821). Biografia degli uomini illustri della Sicili. Naples: Nicola Gervasi. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
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