Guglielmo da Varignana, also Gulielmus Varignana (1270–1339) was a professor of medicine and philosopher from Bologna. He is best known for his medicinal tractate Sublime secrets of medicine to cure various diseases, which he wrote at the court of Mladen II Šubić of Bribir in 1319.
Biography He was a son of Bartolommeo da Varignana, a physician originally from Bologna, pupil of Taddeo Alderotti (died 1295); Bartolommeo gained fame as the physician to the Marchese Aldobrandino d'Este and the emperor Henry VII. Bartolommeo died in 1318 in Genoa.Nuovo Dizionario Istorico, Va = Uz, Tomo XXI, translated from French, Remondini of Venice (1796); pages 89.
Guglielmo was born in 1270Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Thomas F. Glick, Steven John Livesey, Faith Wallis pp. 78 and is also named as a pupil of Taddeo Alderotti.Introduction to the History of Science ...: From Homer to Omar Khayyam, George Sarton, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1967 pp. 234 Guglielmo is first recorded as professor of medicine, but was forced to flee his native BolognaBibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets: Six Papers Read to the Archaeological Society of Glasgow, John Ferguson, 1896 pp. 18 as a Ghibelline in 1318, subsequently becoming a personal physician and advisor to Ban of Croatia Mladen II Šubić.Uloga crkvenih redova u medicini i farmaciji kod Hrvata, V Bazala pp. 259 At the same time, he contributed to curing residents of Zadar. There he wrote his first work Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos (Sublime secrets of medicine to cure various diseases)A History of Medicine: Medieval medicine, Plinio Pirioreschi pp. 364Archivio storico per la Dalmazia, Issues 91-96, 1933 in 1319, under the orders of Mladen.Storia della letteratura italiana di Girolamo Tiraboschi. - Milano pp. 386 In 1320, he is sent as a diplomat to Venice to negotiate terms regarding the city of Šibenik. After the fall of Mladen at 1322 Battle of Bliska, he offered his services to the Republic of Ragusa, signing a two-year contract, which had proved fruitless. After his political opponents were defeated in Bologna, he returned there, remaining until he died in 1339.
Works
The following medicinal works were written by him:Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe, Luke DeMaitre pp. 335 De febrium dispositione tractatus duo. Practica Canonica Ioannis Michaelis Savonaro; Johannes Michael. Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos Ad omnium interiorum & exteriorum partium morbos remediorum praesidia
In 1519, his Secreta sublimia was published in print for the first time and achieved great popularity.The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800, Daniel Jutte, pp. 35-36
External links Ad omnium interiorum exteriorum partium morbos remediorum Praesidia on Google Books Secreta sublimia ad varios curandos morbos on Gonelli.it
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