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Taranta, Valesc de (fl. 1382 – 1426)

Creació de la fitxa: 2010-03-17
Darrera modificació: 2020-08-04
Categoria social i professional
físic - llicenciat - metge
Comentaris
Metge portuguès. Estudià arts a Lisboa i medicina a les universitats de París i Montpeller, on obtingué el grau de llicenciat el 1387. Exercí a Bordeus i tot seguit fou contractat per Gastó (III) de Foix, Febus (1343 – 1391), i els seus successors, període durant el qual va escriure gran part de les seves obres: (1) Tractatus de epidemia et peste (1401); (2) Philonium (o Practica), començat el 1418, als 36 anys d'exercir la medicina; (3) Chirurgia (1428); (4) De regimine sanitatis (perdut?); (5) Liber vocabulorum (perdut?). -- El seu nom presenta moltes variants a les fonts: Valesco [Valasco, Velasco] de Taranta [Tharanta, Taranto, Tarenta]; Velasco de Taranta, a l'ed. castellana de (1); «Valasco de Taranto», a l'ed. catalana de (1). Porbase prioritza Vasco de Taranta. York 2016 opta per Valesco de Taranta.
Bibliografia
Wickersheimer (1936), Dictionnaire biographique des ..., s. v.
Jacquart (1979), Supplément [à] Ernest ..., s. v.
York (2004), Experience and Theory in Medical ...
York (2016), "Writing about medicine per viam ..."
Enllaços
Library of Congress
BnF Data
Porbase
VIAF
Variants del nom
Taranta, Valescus de
Tarenta, Vasco da
Taranta, Valascus de
Tarenta, Valescus de
Tarenta, Valascus de
Taranto, Valasco de

Lluís Cifuentes

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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).