Giovanni da Vigo

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian.  (August 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

* View a machine-translated version of the Italian article.
* Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
* Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,746 articles in the main category, and specifying`|topic=` will aid in categorization.
* Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
* You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is `Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Giovanni da Vigo]]; see its history for attribution.`
* You should also add the template `{{Translated|it|Giovanni da Vigo}}` to the talk page.
* For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

|

Giovanni da Vigo (1450–1525) was an Italian surgeon. He studied under Battista di Rapallo, surgeon to the Marquis of Saluzzo. He spent his early years of practice in Genoa and a statue of him can be found in front of the old Civic hospital in Rapallo. In 1495 Vigo moved to Savona and became acquainted with Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. When the Cardinal was made Pope Julius II in 1503, he took Vigo with him to Rome, appointing him as his official surgeon. He was with the Pope in the attack on Bologna and cured the Pope of a nodule on his hand.[1]

In 1514 Vigo published Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa a comprehensive work on surgery composed of nine books and written in Latin. He dedicated it to his son, Luigi. In it Vigo wrote about anatomy, medications and the treatment of apostome, ulcers, wounds, diseases and fractures and dislocations.[2]

The book on wounds included one of the earliest discussions of the treatment of wounds caused by firearms. He assumed that the victims of such wounds were poisoned by gunpowder and recommended treatment with boiling oil in order to counteract the poison. Ambroise Paré in 1536, as surgeon to colonel-general Mareschal de Montjean discovered that such treatment was counter-productive and recommends different treatments. The book on diseases discussed the French Disease (which is generally equated with modern-day Syphilis).

In 1517, Vigo published Practica compendiosa which covered most of the same material as his Practica in a much more condensed form. Vigo's two books were commonly printed together after that and often along with another compendium of surgery by Mariano Santo who said he had been a student of Vigo's and who would later become famous for his work on the treatment of bladder stones.

Although he is generally known today only for his mistaken treatment of gunshot wounds, Vigo's first book on surgery was enormously successful. It was translated into English, Latin, Italian and French and reprinted dozens of times in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries making him one of the best known surgeons of his day.[3]

## Works[edit]

* Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa (Rome, 1514). The book went through numerous editions and translations. The 1519 Latin edition is on line [1]
* Practica compendiosa (Rome, 1517). Often printed with the Practica.
* An English translation by Bartholomew Traheron entitled ‘The moste Excellent Workes of Chirurgerye made and set forthe by maister John Vigon, heed chirurgien of our tyme in Italie was published in 1543.[4]

## See also[edit]

* Gunpowder warfare

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Vigo, Giovanni Da – Dictionary definition of Vigo, Giovanni Da | Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
2. ^ Prima pars practice in chirurgia: Practica in arte chirurgica copiosa ... in aedibus Iacobi Myt..., sumptib[us]... Vince[n]tii de Portonariis, 1519.
3. ^ "[WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
4. ^ William Carew Hazlitt, "Vigo, Giovanni". In: Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature: 1474-1700. 1887

## External links[edit]

* Encyclopedia.com entry on Vigo
* DOI.org
* Giovanni Vigo's Statue

Authority control

International|

* FAST
* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat Identities

National|

* France
* BnF data
* Catalonia
* Germany
* Italy
* Belgium
* United States
* Sweden
* Czech Republic
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* Vatican
* 2

People|

* Italian People
* Deutsche Biographie
* Trove

Other|

* IdRef

This biography related to medicine in Italy is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template