Andrea Camuzio

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Andrea Camuzio , also Andrea Camuzzi (* around 1512 in Lugano ; † 1587 in Milan or Como ) was a Swiss physician and university professor.

Life

Andrea Camuzio was the son of the doctor Francesco Camuzio (* around 1480 in Lugano; † after 1520 there); his brother was the humanist Gerolamo Camuzio (* around 1515 in Lugano; † after 1555 there).

After studying philosophy and medicine at the University of Pavia , he practiced as an imperial court physician and first personal physician to Emperor Maximilian II (HRR) in Vienna until 1576 and held medical lectures as a professor at the University of Pisa from 1576 to 1587 . One of his students was also Galileo Galilei , who studied medicine in Pisa in the early 1580s.

Andrea Camuzio was known for his disputations , so he took part in a dispute in Milan in 1541 on the question of the agreement of Plato and Aristotle with the Holy Scriptures ; his manuscript is in the Trivulziana Library in Milan. In 1544 he took part in the disputation against Martin Luther in Rome ; his manuscript prepared for this disputatio Contra Martinum Lutherum is in the Vatican Apostolic Library .

On August 5, 1549 he took part in a public religious dispute in Lugano in the Landvogtschloss chaired by the Catholic Landvogt Nikolaus Wirz. Together with him, on the part of the Catholic side, Fra Lorenzo, his brother Girolamo Camuzzi, the archpriest Galeazzo Muralto († 1557) and the land clerk of Lugano Hans Zumbrunnen were involved. The participants on the other side were Giovanni Beccaria , Taddeo Duno and the brothers Ronco, Martino († 1566) and Giovanni Muralto. The disputation was broken off without an agreement because the Protestants were only given the choice of accepting or rejecting the closing speeches written by Fra Lorenzo; However, they only wanted to accept these insofar as they would also agree with the Bible.

In 1563 he had a dispute with Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), the most famous Milanese doctor of his time.

Andrea Camuzio was married, his son Eugenio Camuzio (* around 1540 in Lugano; † 1602 in Rome) later became a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer

Fonts (selection)

  • In Sacrarum literarum cum Aristotele et Platone concordiam praefatio. Ioannes Maria Simoneta, Ticini ca.1541.
  • Disputationes, quibus Hieronymi Cardani, conclusiones infirmantur, Galenus ab ejusdem injuria vindicatur, Hippocratis praeterea aliquot loca diligentius multo quam unquam alias explicantur. Hieronymus Bartolus, Pavia 1563.
  • De humano intellectu libri quatuor. Hieronymus Bartolus, Pavia 1564.
  • De amore atque felicitate libri novem, hactenus in lucem nusqvam aediti. Stephan Kreuzer, Vienna 1574.
  • Excußio breuis praecipui morbi, nempe cordis palpitationis. Marescotus, Florence 1578.
  • De nobilitate libri octo. Milan, 1641.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Meyer (Historien): The Protestant congregation in Locarno, their emigration to Zurich and their further fates: a contribution to the history of Switzerland in the sixteenth century: based on mostly unused handwritten sources . S. 192. G. Höhr, 1836 ( google.de [accessed on May 15, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Rudolf Pfister : For the sake of faith. The Evangelical Refugees from Locarno and their admission to Zurich in 1555. Ed .: Evangelischer Verlag, Zollikon. Pp. 33-39, 1955.
  3. ↑ Celestino Trezzini: Andrea Camuzio. In Historisches-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , p. 483, digitized version , (accessed October 4, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Camuzio, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camutii, Andrea; Camutius, Andreas; Camuzzi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicians and university lecturers
DATE OF BIRTH around 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH 1587
Place of death Milan or Como