to bée rayſed by diuine prouidence, at that time to make perfect that noble art, and to confound the manyfold ſects and errours, with which as then it was defaced, vntill hée was fifteene yeares of age, hée was brought vp by his Father in Gramer, Logicke, and Arethmetike, after he gaue himſelfe to more grauer ſtudyes of Philoſophie, wherein he profited. After 18. yeares olde, his Father by a dreame was admoniſhed to ſette his ſonne to ſtudie Phiſicke, in which arte within fiue yeares, hee ſo notablye preuailed, that hee not onelye paſſed all his equalles, but his maſters alſo that taught him, hée was adorned with the ornament of honour and good gouernement. In teaching hée vſed an excellent order and methode, that his workes are wonderouſlye eſtéemed of all that knowe what learning meaneth: So much hée tendered his owne Countrye, béeing borne in Pergamos, a famous and rich Citie in Aſia the leſſe, that hee choſe rather in his later time, to liue there in meane eſtate, then with the Emperours of Rome in great eſtimation and dignitie, hee liued (as ſome doe write) neere an hundred yeares, hee flouriſhed in the time of Marcus Comodus, and dyed onelye for feebleneſſe of age, after the incarnation of Chriſt, about 160. yeares.
Galen maketh reporte of one ſpeciall medicine (that happened to him by chaunce) to cure the Gout, which is to take olde, ſowre, or tart Cheeſe, and with a Gammon of Bacon to be ſodde together, and to bée pownd in a morter, vntill it be flat like a plaiſter, this ſayde to the aking ioyntes, diminiſheth the knots, and aſwageth the paine.
Hugutio was Duke of Piſan in Greece, it ſeemeth becauſe hée is let by Bartholome for an Authour, that hee wrote of the nature of ſome thing: hée vanquiſhed the people of Hetruria, at the mountaine called Catinum, this man flouriſhed about Anno Domini. 1320. Of this Hugution the Authour of Sup. Siph. Cronicar. calleth him Hugutio Flagiolanus of Piſan and Lucenſium, the Tyrant, he was a ſcourge to the Florentines: it maye bee that there was ſome other of that name, but I finde no ſufficient Authour to auouch it.
Hyſidorus or Iſidorus, was Biſhoppe after Leander of Hiſpalenſis, now called Sibilia or Siuile in Spaine, a man of ſingular learning and cloquence, hée wrote diuerſe bookes, Ethimologarum, de ſummo bono, Allegoriarum, De Aſtronomia, Domino & ſilio, Deum & homo, De viris illuſtribus, & vocabilis Grammatices, Hiſtoriarum quoque ab Adam, vſque ad haec tempora, that is vntill that time in the which he wrote. De geſtis Longabardorum, with others, he flouriſhed about Anno Domini. 615.
Innocentius, becauſe there are diuerſe of that name, if there were anye worthy the name of learned, I ſuppoſe the firſt and ſecond that were Biſhops of Rome, &c.
Ioſath a Caldean Hyſtoriographer.
Ipartus or Hypareas Mathematicus, he was about the yeares before Chriſt, 368.
Iuuenall, a Romane Poet, which wrote Satyres, flouriſhed about the yeres after Chriſt. 88.
Iohannicus.
Kalixtus, Graecus ſiue Athenienſis, (becauſe of his learning and ſtudy) borne at Rauena, a citie in Italy, beeing after Biſhop of Rome, ordained the foure yéerely faſts, about Anno Domini. 220. if mine authour haue not miſtaken this Kalixtus for ſome other.
Lentippus.
Michael Scotus, I finde not of what country or profeſſion, onely of Iohannes Scotus, two of that name, the one flouriſhed about 890. borne in Scotland, a man had in greate eſtimation of Carolus. 3. Emperour of the Romanes, for his learning and wiſdome, the other was a frier of the order of the Minorites. & Preather, who flouriſhed about Anno. 1030. and was called Iohn Dunus or Dunce, otherwiſe Scotus.
Macrobius the name of an olde writer, a Philoſopher about the yeere of our Lord. 156.
Mercurio, Miſelake, Aſtrologus.
