Girolamo Fracastorii

Girolamo Fracastorii (Hieronymi Fracasrorii, Latin name as it appears in his work). He died on August 8th, 1553. We have his birth year, 1478, but not the date. He was a doctor, writer, author of the book Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or French Evil), published in Verona in 1530. This work, written in Latin, brings the first record of the word syphilis.