Girolamo Bardi (philosopher)

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Girolamo Bardi (born March 7, 1603 in Rapallo , † after 1667 in Rome ) was an Italian philosopher, theologian, anatomist and physician, as well as a doctor .

life and work

Girolamo Bardi was born to Giovanni Bardi and Lucrezia Della Torre, who came from Genoa . When he was 12, his family moved from there to Parma , where he studied medicine. In Parma he also became a student of Nicolò Cabeo , who taught philosophy. In 1619 he joined the Jesuit order , but had to resign after six years for health reasons. In Genoa he took up a theology degree and completed his medical degree.

On the intercession of the Archbishops of Pisa and Siena, Giuliano de 'Medici and Ascanio Piccolomini , he was appointed to Pisa in 1633 as lecturer for Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy as the successor to Iacopo Mazzoni . In 1634 he was appointed Magister extraordinarius philosophiae . The unpublished writings In Aristotelis Metheora , In Platonis Timeum and Vestigium libertatis philosophiae are likely to have been written during this period .

Parallel to his philosophical endeavors, he attended the medical school of Rodrigo De Castro , who later became the target of small polemical writings from the pen of Bardi, and Giulio Guastavini , as well as anatomy with Giovanni Battista Ruschi , all of whom taught at the Ateneo pisano . Bardi corresponded with Galileo Galilei , whom he adored and supported.

In 1635 he left Pisa and went to Liguria , whether because of conflicts within the Ateneo pisano , as indicated by a letter to Galileo of October 26, 1635, is unclear. Bardi lived in Genoa and Rapallo, where he devoted himself to the writing of his two most demanding works, namely his treatise on the iatrochimica in five volumes, for which Domenico Panaroli , professor of anatomy and medicine at the Sapienza in Rome, wrote the prospetto in 1653 , with the title Hieronymi Bardi DS iatro-philoeuchymici theatrum naturae iatrochymicae rationalis. Opus dogmaticum theorico-practicum; quo quidquid in universo naturae ambitu medicarum continetur facultatum, ob oculos curiosi, et novztatum amatoris, et melioris medicinae studiosi exponitur . The second work, dedicated to medicina sacra , spiritual medicine, which Bardi had printed in 1643 under the title Medicus politico [sic] catholicus seu medicinae sacrae tum cognoscendae tum faciendae idea, Hieronymi Bardi ... industria delineata , was reprinted in 1644. In Rome in 1659 he published a work on St. Francesco Saverio , which he dedicated to Pope Alexander VII , and for which he received a pension of 50 scudi.

After his father died, Bardi went to Rome in 1651, where he worked as a doctor. He still lived there in 1667, but after that he no longer appears in the sources.

Works (selection)

  • Hieronymi Bardi Genuensis prolusio philosophica habita in pisarum celeberrimo Athaeneo XI. mensis novembris MDCXXXIII , Pisa 1634. ( digitized version )
  • Medicus politico catholicus seu medicinae sacrae tum cognoscendae tum faciendae idea, Hieronymi Bardi Genven. Philosophi, Medici, ac Theologi, iam tum in Pisano Ataeneo Aristotelicae, & Platonicae Philosophiae Professoris industria delineata , Rome 1643, reprint 1644. ( digitized version )
  • Ode in laudem Sereniss. Lucae Iustiniani Ducis Rei.publicae Genuensis electi anno MDCXLIV , Genoa 1646.
  • Hieronymi Bardi DS iatro-philoeuchymici theatrum naturae iatrochymicae rationalis. Opus dogmaticum theorico-practicum; quo quidquid in universo naturae ambitu medicarum continetur facultatum, ob oculos curiosi, et novztatum amatoris, et melioris medicinae studiosi exponitur , 5 vol., Rome 1653.
  • Xaverius peregrinus a Hieronymo Bardi iatro-theologo pede pari et impari descriptus , Rome 1659. ( digitized version )
  • Pellegrino moribondo ovvero divozione da praticarsi per ottenere una santa morte con l'intercessione di S. Francesco Saverio Apostolo dell'India , Rome 1663.

literature

  • Francesco Cagnetti: Bardi, Girolamo , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 6 (1964)
  • August Ferdinand Brueggemann: Biography of Doctors , Volume 1, C. Brueggemann, Halberstadt 1829, p. 289 (translation from French with strong abbreviations).

Remarks

  1. ^ Xaverius peregrinus a Hieronymo Bardi iatro-theologo pede pari et impari descriptus , Rome 1659.
personal data
SURNAME Bardi, Girolamo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, theologian, anatomist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapallo
DATE OF DEATH after 1667
Place of death Rome