Hugo Favoli

Hugo Favoli ( Latinized Hugues Favoli (n) us ; born August 12, 1523 in Middelburg ; died August 10, 1585 in Antwerp ) was a Dutch doctor and humanist .

Life

Hugo Favoli was the son of Francesco Favoli, who had moved from Pisa to Middelburg as a merchant and worked as a factor for the Genoese and Florentine trading company. His mother was Anna Hughes, daughter of an unknown Hugo from Zealand . Hugo Favoli had two brothers, Baptista and Gheeradijn, and a sister named Lucretia. After an initial school education in his native Middelburg, Hugo Favoli first studied philosophy , then medicine at the University of Padua , the leading institution of the subject in Europe at the time. In 1545, tired of Galen's apprenticeship , he went on a trip to Italy with friends, visited Rome and then went to Venice . There he met Matthias Laurijn, a school friend and at that time probably secretary to the envoy Gerard Veltwick .

The Flemish diplomat and learned Hebraist Gerard Veltwick von Ravenstein was secretary to Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle , the state secretary of Emperor Charles V. Because of his language skills, he was sent to the court of Sultan Suleyman I in 1545 to seek an armistice in the war with Charles V. to negotiate, and Noukios accompanied him to Constantinople . Laurijn persuaded Hugo Favoli to join the company. Another participant in the delegation was the Greek Nikandros Noukios, who lives in Venice .

In June of that year, the group started the journey from Venice and reached their destination in autumn. Favoli took the opportunity to visit some Greek islands before returning to Venice via Epirus and Calabria at the end of winter .

It is unknown whether Favoli completed his studies before the trip or did so afterwards. At an unknown time he went back to the Netherlands and settled as a doctor in Antwerp. As a city doctor he can be found there for the first time in 1564 and then regularly in the archives. Before 1570 he must have married Cecilia van Bree (n) from Middelburg. In 1573 he was doyen of the Medical Guild in Antwerp. There he died in 1585 shortly before his 62nd birthday and was buried at his own request in the cathedral cemetery. He wrote the epitaph on his grave himself.

Artis Apollineae cultura, insignis & usu,
Phoebei cultor carminis atque lyrae,
Pisano genitore satus, genitrice Zelanda:
Hugo, Favoliacae sollicitudo domus,
Aetatis bis sex anno post lustra secundo,
Conditur hoc tumulo: spiritus astra tenet.
Obiit anno MDLXXXV x aug. Vixit
on. LXI m. XI d. XXIX.

Literary work

In addition to his work as a doctor, which confronted him primarily with the treatment of the plague and the war wounded, Hugo Favoli dealt with Latin literature and poetry and appeared as a poet himself. From the trip to Constantinople he wrote an extensive, three-part poem, a so-called Hodoeporicon , which was printed in Antwerp in 1563 and was dedicated to Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle .

The first part was dedicated to the outward journey, the ship route along the Illyrian and Dalmatian coasts and the land journey from Ragusa, today's Dubrovnik . The second part describes Constantinople and its monuments, as well as the history of the city and that of its predecessor, Byzantions . The return journey is shown in the third part: the visit to the island of Lemnos , Attica , the embarkation in Piraeus , the journey to Zante , from where it went via Brindisi , Bari and the Gargano to Venice.

The Hodoeporicon experienced a certain spread in educated circles. As early as 1570 it was used in quotations and excerpts for the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by the Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius . Nikolaus von Reusner printed abridged versions of the first and third parts in his Hodoeporicorum sive itinerum totius fere Orbis libri VII from 1580.

In an Almanack en Prognosticatie, op de Revolutie vanden Iare ons Heeren MDLXXVIII , Favoli, who calls himself Doctor of Medicine and Mathematics on the title page, deals with astrological-astronomical questions. Calculated on the Antwerp meridian , it traces the influences of climate, sun, moon and seasons on people and their health. Likely to be attributed also to Favoli is a medical writing that contains resources for good health in times of plague. Under the title Corte Ordinantie ... teghens die besmetteijke sieckte, as nu grasserende, ghenaemt de Peste , the font was published in Antwerp only under the author's abbreviation HF 1571.

In addition, Favioli wrote other Latin poems or contributed Latin distiches for the works of others. He wrote the verses for the engravings for the collection of illustrations of De deis gentium imagines from the hand of the draftsman and engraver Philipp Galle from 1581. Further poems can be found in the collections of Johannes Sambucus and in the Urbium praecipuarum totius mundi liber tertium by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg from 1588.

Works

• Hodoeporici Byzantini libri III. Servatius Sassenus, Löwen 1563 ( digitized version ).
• Acrosticha duo: primum, in adventum Annae Austriacae; secundum, in lustracionem urbis Antwerpianae. Tilenius, Antwerp 1570.
• Corte Ordinantie, Inhoudende ghemeyneremedien end lichtelijck om te maken, dickmaels beproeft, end gheexperimenteert, nootlijck in desen weecken tijdt, teghens die besmetteijke sieckte, as nu grassy, ​​ghenaemt de Peste. Tielens, Antwerp 1571.
• Carmen Heroicum de classica ad Naupactum contra Turcas victoria per Joannem Austriacum. Plantinus, Antwerp 1572.
• Almanack en Prognosticatie, op de Revolutie vanden Iare ons Heeren MDLXXVIII. Waesberghe, Antwerp 1578.
• Enchiridion theatri orbis terrarum, carmine illustratum. Antwerp 1585.

literature

• Elly Cockx-Indestege: Hugo Favolius. In: Hermann Liebaers, Marie-Thérèse Lenger (Ed.): Bibliotheca Belgica. Delivery 227–228. Indestege, Brussels 1963, F 87-92.
• Hermann Wiegand : Hodoeporica. Studies on Neo-Latin travel poetry in the German cultural area in the 16th century. With a bio-bibliography of the authors and prints (= Saecula spiritalia. Volume 12). Koerner, Baden-Baden 1984, pp. 145-176.
• Hermann Wiegand: Imago Turcae. The Turkish image of the early modern times in Latin lessons in upper school. In: The ancient language teaching. Volume 36, Issue 6, 1993, pp. 12-36.

Remarks

1. ↑ On Gerard Veltwick see Karl Brandi :  Veltwyk, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 598 f.
2. ^ Philipp Galle: De deis gentium imagines: aliquot iconicae, aeneis tabulis. Antwerp 1581 ( digitized ).