Ludovico Settala

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Doctor
Ludovico Settala
Portrait of Ludovico Settala (Septalius)
Born(1552-02-27)February 27, 1552
Milan, Duchy of Milan
Died12 September 1633(1633-09-12) (aged 81)
Milan, Duchy of Milan
Resting placeSan Nazaro in Brolo
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Pavia
Occupation(s)Physician, philosopher, renaissance humanist
Known forhis role in controlling the Great Plague of Milan of 1629–1631
SpouseAngela Arona
ChildrenManfredo Settala
Parent(s)Francesco Settala and Giulia Settala (née Ripa)
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health[1]
Institutions

Ludovico Settala, also known by his Latin name of Ludovicus Septalius, was an Italian physician during the Renaissance.

Biography

Ludovico Settala was born in Milan on February 27, 1552, the son of Francesco Settala and Giulia Ripa. He studied the humanities with Antonio Maria Venosta and philosophy at the Jesuit school in his native city. At the early age of 16 he submitted his graduation thesis.[3] He then enrolled in the University of Pavia where he studied medicine under Paolo Cigalini, a student of Gabriele Falloppio.[3] After obtaining a doctorate in philosophy and medicine in 1573, he began writing on some contradictory passages in Hippocrates and Galen, but this work was interrupted when he was appointed professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pavia. Three years later he resigned his professorship to devote himself entirely to medical practice in Milan. When in 1576 an epidemic of bubonic plague broke out in Milan, Settala played a leading part in fighting the disease and in aiding its victims.[4]

He attained to such renown that Philip III of Spain offered him a post as historiographer, and he was tendered professorships at Ingolstadt, Pisa, Bologna, and Padua, all of which honors he refused.[3] From 1605 onward he taught moral and political philosophy in the municipal Scuole Canobiane. In 1627, Settala was nominated by Philip IV to the post of physician-general to the Duchy of Milan. Settala was honored by Alessandro Manzoni in chapter thirty-one of I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1827), as “one of the most active and intrepid doctors” during the terrible days of the Great Plague of Milan. During the plague he was himself struck down and subsequently suffered a stroke that left him paralysed on one side of the body. He died in Milan at the age of 81, on September 12, 1633, and was buried in the church of San Nazaro in Brolo.

Settala had established a cabinet of curiosities in his palace on the Via Pantano in Milan.[5] After his death his son Manfredo took charge of the collection and became one of the great collectors of seventeenth-century Europe.[6]

Works

A prolific writer, Settala's chief works are Animadversionum et cautionum medicarum libri IX (1614), the result of 40 years of practice, which went through several editions, and De peste et pestiferis adfectibus (1622). He also wrote on moles and nevi (1606) and spoke of the sympathetic relation between the skin of the face and the rest of the body.

List of works

  • Settala, Ludovico (1590). In Librum Hippocratis Coi de aeribus, aquis, locis Commentarii V. appositus est graecus Hippocratis contextus ... restitutus et ... emendatus, una cum nova eiusdem in Latinum versione (in Latin). Colonia. Retrieved 3 March 2019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Settala, Ludovico (1602). Ludovici Septalii Patricii Mediolanensis Commentariorum in Aristotelis Problemata (in Latin). Vol. 1. septem primas sectiones continens, ab eodem Latine factas. Francoforte. Retrieved 3 March 2019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Settala, Ludovico (1607). Ludovici Septalii Patricii Mediolanensis Commentariorum in Aristotelis Problemata (in Latin). Vol. 2. secundam heptadem continens, ab eodem Latine factam. Francoforte. Retrieved 3 March 2019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Animaduersionum, & cautionum medicarum libri septem. Quorum materiam sequens pagina indicabit, Mediolani: apud Io. Bapt. Bidell., 1614.
  • De peste, & pestiferis affectibus. Libri quinque, Mediolani: apud Ioannem Baptistam Bidellium, 1622.
  • Ludouici Septalij patrici et medici Mediolanensis, De ratione instituendae, & gubernandae familiae. Libri quinque. Senator F. edidit, & Iulio Aresio Senatus Mediolanensis principi dicauit, Mediolani: apud Io. Baptistam Bidellium, 1626.
  • Della ragion di stato libri sette. Di Lodouico Settala. All'illustrissimo, & eccellentissimo signore Don Emanuelle de Fonseca e Zugniga, Milano: appresso Gio. Battista Bidelli, 1627.
  • Cura locale de' tumori pestilentiali, che sono il bubone, l'antrace, o carboncolo, & i furoncoli. Contenente tutto quello, che si ha da fare esteriormente nella cura di questi mali. Tolta dal libro della cura della peste. Del signor profisico Lodouico Settala, Milano: per Giouan Battista Bidelli, 1629.
  • Preseruatione dalla peste scritta dal sig. protomedico Lodouico Settala, Brescia: per Bartholomeo Fontana, 1630.
  • Settala, Ludovico (1632). Commentaria in Aristotelis Problemata (in Latin). Lugduni. Retrieved 3 March 2019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Antidotario romano latino, et volgare tradotto da Hippolito Cesarelli romano. Con l'aggionta dell'elettione de semplici, e prattica delle compositioni. E di due trattati, vno della teriaca romana, ... l'altro della teriaca egittia. Aggiontoui in questa vltima impressione le auertenze, & osseruationi appartenenti alla compositione de medicamenti del sig. Lodovico Settala, Milano: per Gio. Battista Bidelli, 1635.
  • Auertenze, et osseruationi appartenenti al curar le ferite, tradotte dall'ottavo libro delle osseruationi del signor Ludouico Settala, da Alessandro Tadino, Milano: per Gio. Pietro Cardi, 1641.
  • Breue compendio per curare ogni sorte de tumori esterni, & cutanee turpitudini, raccolto dalle osseruationi fisice, & chirurgice nelli vltimi anni fatte dal sig. Lodouico Settala medico collegiato. D'Alessandro Tadino medico collegiato, Milano: per Lodouico Monza: ad instan. di Altobello Pisani, 1646.
  • Ludovici Septalii mediolanensis, Opera de ratione familiae cum instituendae, tum gubernandae libri V et De ratione status libris VII, Editio nova, Ulmae: prostat apud Jo. Frid. Gaum, 1755.

Notes

  1. ^ "Lodovico Settala". The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Eds. Peter Hainsworth and David Robey. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2002). Oxford Reference Online. Retrieved 28 November 2022. Oxford Reference (Registration required).
  2. ^ Rota Ghibaudi 1959, p. 41.
  3. ^ a b c Mellerio 2018.
  4. ^ Ludovico Settala entry (in Italian) by Pietro Capparoni in the Enciclopedia italiana
  5. ^ Bedini, Silvio A. (1994). Science and instruments in seventeenth-century Italy. Variorum. p. LI. ISBN 9780860784425.
  6. ^ Simmons, John E. (2016). Museums. A History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 117. ISBN 9781442263635.

Bibliography

  • Chalmers, Alexander (1816). "Septalius, or Settala (Louis)". The General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 27. London: J. Nichols. pp. 342–343.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Corte, Bartolomeo (1718). Notizie istoriche intorno a medici scrittori milanesi. Milan. pp. 137–146.
  • Argelati, Filippo (1745). Bibliotheca scriptorum mediolanensium seu acta, et elogia virorum omnigena eruditione illustrium, qui in metropoli Insubriae, oppidisque circumjacentibus orti sunt. Vol. II. Milan. pp. 1321–1328.
  • Sangiorgio, Paolo (1831). F. Longhena (ed.). Cenni storici sulle due università di Pavia e di Milano e notizie intorno ai più celebri medici, chirurghi e speziali di Milano dal ritorno delle scienze sino all’anno 1816. Opera postuma. Milan. pp. 258–272.
  • De Renzi, Salvatore (1845). Storia della medicina italiana. Vol. III. Naples. pp. 509 ff.
  • Ferrario, Ercole (1857). Intorno alla vita ed alle opere mediche di Ludovico Settala. Cenni. Milan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Capparoni, Pietro (1928). Profili biobibliografici di medici e naturalisti celebri italiani dal sec. XV al sec. XVIII. Vol. II. Rome. pp. 131–133.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • La Cava, Angelo Francesco (1945). La peste di S. Carlo. Note storico mediche sulla peste del 1576. Milan. pp. 52–55.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rota Ghibaudi, Silvia (1959). Ricerche su Ludovico Settala. Florence.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Ferro, Filippo Maria (1831). La peste nella cultura lombarda. Milan. pp. 89–91.
  • Cosmacini, Giorgio (2009). Il medico e il cardinale. Milan. passim.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1810). Storia della letteratura italiana, parte seconda ("Dall'anno 1500 all'anno 1600") (in Italian). Vol. Tomo VII, capo III, par. XLI. Firenze. pp. 681–83. Retrieved 6 May 2019. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Facchin, Laura. "Ludovico Settala: un intellettuale barocco fra scienza e arte". European Network for Baroque Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 1 April 2019.

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