Top 3 Alfanus I Quotes

Archbishop of Salerno

Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno (died 1085) was a noted physician and ecclesiastic, archbishop of Salerno from 1058, who worked at the famous Schola Medica Salernitana.

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Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum

Translation: ...for the teaching of this kind I will devote myself to translating what is said more fully by many authors, and especially those whom mother Greece educated, whilst the Latins were oppressed by lack, . . . of knowledge.

...ad doctrinam huiusmodi copiosius a perpluribus dicta auctoribus, et praecipue ab his quos mater educavit Graecia, Latinorum cogente penuria, . . . transferenda conferam