AFFLACIO, GIOVANNI. - Salernitan physician, of the second half of the 11th century. He is said to have been a disciple of Constantine the African. Seven physicians by the name of John lived almost contemporaneously, so that it is not always easy to identify their lives and works. Following the studies of De Renzi, it has emerged that A. is the John, a Benedictine, mentioned by Peter the Deacon. A physician before withdrawing into the cloister, and perhaps also a teacher in Salerno, he seems to have shut himself in the monastery in 1075, when the city fell into the hands of Robert Guiscard. Having declared himself a disciple of Constantine, he collected his books. He is recognized as the author of a Liber urinarum, although it ends with the words "Explicit liber aureus", a book that is said to be by Constantine. Another book of his is the one entitled Curiae Iohannis Afflatii discipuli Constantini de febribus.
Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Pastoral medicine Authors
Afflacio, Giovanni
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 368.
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Pazzini, Adalberto. “Afflacio, giovanni.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 368. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/afflacio-giovanni.
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Pazzini, Adalberto. “Afflacio, giovanni.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 368. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/afflacio-giovanni.
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@incollection{ec1_afflacio_giovanni,
author = {Pazzini, Adalberto},
title = {Afflacio, giovanni},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {368},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/afflacio-giovanni}
}
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