Persons known by name
Mercuriale, Girolamo
Mercuriale, Girolamo
- 1530–1606 (DBI)
- physician and philologist
- lived in Rome ca. 1561–1569 as physician of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
- friend of Onofrio Panvinio who, in 1568, counted him among the most important antiquarians of his time: "These are indeed all the people in the present century who have dealt with res romanae in a systematic way. For I have deliberately omitted all those who, in our time or earlier, wrote commentaries on that subject and whom I judge not to have treated it in a manner worthy of its dignity. […] my friend Girolamo Mercuriale of Forlì, physician to the eminent Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, [who] in six books described all the exercises of the ancients in an outstanding manner and with admirable erudition and diligence." [translation by Nancy G. Siriasi from [Siraisi 2003: 231] after Panvinio's De his qui romanas antiquitates scripto comprehenderung in [Ferrary 1996: 62].]
- Mercuriale's famous book De Arte Gymnastica was first published in 1569 with a dedication to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, but came out in 1573 in an edition with illustrations provided or based on drawings by Pirro Ligorio.
- In Farnese's household Mercuriale must also have had close contact with Fulvio Orsini who followed Panvinio on his position after his early death in 1568.
