Constantine the African
Also known as Constantinus Africanus, Constantine Africanus, Constantine of Carthage, St Constantine, St Constantine the African, St Constantine of Carthage, St Constantine Africanus, Constantine the Carthaginian
11th-century monk and translator of medical works
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- Born
- ca. 1020
- Died
- 1087
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Della melancolia
- Liber de oculis
- Opera, conquisita undique magno studio
- Constantini Africani post Hippocratem et Galenvm, qvorum, Græcę linguæ doctus, sedulus suit lector, medicorū nulli prorsus, multis doctissimis testibus, posthabendi opera, cōquisita undiq[ue] magno studio, iam primum typis euulgata, præter paucula quędam quæ impressa fuerūt, sed & ipsa à nobis ad uetustissimorum exemplarium manuscriptorum ueritatem tanta cura castigata, ut huius autoris antehac nihil æditum censeri possit, librorum ægrotis & medicis utilissimorum maxime[que] necessariorum catalogum hæc pagina uersa & prima epistola demonstrabunt
- Summi in omni philosophia uiri Constantini Africani medici Operum reliqua, hactenus desiderata, nuncq[ue] primum impressa ex uenerandae antiquitatis exemplari, quod nunc demum est inuentum
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Constantine examines patients' urine.
Constantine the African, O.S.B. (Latin: Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in Ifriqiya and the rest in Italy. He first arrived in Italy in the coastal town of Salerno, home of the Schola Medica Salernitana, where his work attracted attention from the local Lombard and Norman rulers. Constantine then became a Benedictine monk, living the last decades of his life at the abbey of Monte Cassino.