Valentinus Lublinus, also known as Walenty Lublin,[1] was a 16th-century
Polish physician and editor of medical texts. He was a student of
Johannes Baptista Montanus at the
University of Padua, and collected, edited and published several volumes of his teacher's lectures[2] two years after Montanus's death.[3] One of these volumes was "explanations" of
Galen, published in 1556.[4]
The surname Lublinus indicates that he was from
Lublin, a center of literary and intellectual activity during the
Polish Renaissance. Lublinus's
Latinized name also sometimes appears with the cognomen Polonus, an additional
toponym to indicate that he was from
Poland.
^Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
search results; Bibliografia polska (Kraków, 1906) vol. 21, pp. 537–540
online.
^Gianna Pomata, "The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine," in Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe (MIT Press, 2005), p. 144, note 110.
^In artem parvam Galeni explanationes: Ian Maclean, Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 359.
Further reading
V. Nutton, "The Reception of
Fracastoro's Theory of Contagion: The Seed That Fell among Thorns?" Osiris 6 (1990) 196–234.