Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 182) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871691828)

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 Justinian, the 6th century. Only a few biographical facts about him can be gleaned from his 6 poems. Chapters: Introduction to Zerbi & His Works; text of The "Gerontocomia" On the Care of the Aged; Intro. to Maximianus's Elegies on Old Age & Love; & The Elegies. Bibliography.

Author: L. R. Lind,Gabriele Zerbi,Maximianus
ISBN-10: 0871691825
ISBN-13: 9780871691828
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1988
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d