Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 182)

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 Universityat 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 biog...