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Gian Giacomo Adria

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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

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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

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Map of Mazara

He wrote several works of a historical-scientific, literary and poetic nature.

Scientific works

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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  1. ^ Noakes, Susan; Kaster, Robert A. (1983). "Tommaso Schifaldo's "Libellus de indagationibus grammaticis"". Humanistica Lovaniensia. 32: 107–156. ISSN 0774-2908.
  2. ^ a b ADRIA, Gian Giacomo entry (in Italian) by Roberto Zapperi in the Enciclopedia Treccani (1960).
  3. ^ a b Ortolani, Giuseppe Emanuele (1821). Biografia degli uomini illustri della Sicilia. Naples: Nicola Gervasi. Retrieved 22 December 2020.