Paul Jove

Paolo Giovio , known in French under the name of Paul Jove , born on the edges of the Lake of Like (Italy) the April 19th 1483 and died in Florence the December 11th 1552, is a Médecin, historian and Italian ecclesiastic.

He was initially doctor before embracing the ecclesiastical state. He lived approximately 37 years with the the Vatican and was the historian of his time. He was thus a chronicler of the Guerres of Italy. Most important of its works are the Historia sui temporis ab anno 1494 AD annum 1547 (Paris, 1553), translated into French by Denis Sauvage (1579). It published also a Éloge of famous writers ( Elogia doctorum virorum ). It was also interested in the Zoologie by publishing a work on fish, De Romanis piscibus (Rome, 1524). Pantaléon Thévenin quotes it in its comment of the Week of Guillaume of Bartas.

Works

Of romanis piscibus (1524)
Of legatione Basilii Magni Principis Moschoviae (1525)
Commentario of the thimble of' Turchi (1531))
Elogia virorum litteris illustrium (1546)
Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae and Orchadum (1548)
Vitae (1549)
Historiarum sui temporis libri (1550-52)

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