Girolamo Accoramboni

Gerolamo Accoramboni (also known as: Hieronymus Acorombonus Eugubius ) is an Italian physician born in Gubbio in Umbria on February 1469 and died in Rome on 21 February 1537.

Personal life Fourth son of Giovanni Filippo Accoramboni, with whom he had several children including: Fabio, jurist at the University of Padua. Claudio who married Tarquinia Paluzzi Albertoni in 1549: they had eleven children including Vittoria Accoramboni (1557-1585) whose life will inspire Stendhal (Vittoria Accoramboni) and John Webster (The White Devil).

Professional life He completed his studies of philosophy at the University of Perugia. From 1514, while keeping his post in Perugia, he taught theoretical medicine in Rome until 1515.

Homonym There is a “Gerolamo Accoramboni”, uncle of Antonio Benevoli, professor of surgery in Florence. But the latter was born in 1685 in Castello delle Preci in the Duchy of Spoleto.

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