Giulio Alessandrini

Giulio Alessandrini, chalcography of 1830

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. He studied philosophy at the University of Padua. He was physician to emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolph II.

He was a devoted follower of Galen and translated many of Galen's works into Latin, adding his own commentary. He died in Civezzano.

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.

References[]

• Arthur Richter (1875), "Alexandrinus von Neustein, Julius", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 1, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 337–338
• Karl Schadelbauer (1953), "Alexandrinus (Alessandrini) von Neu(en)stein, Julius", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 197–197
• this article incorporates material from the French Wikipedia article