Lusitanus, Zacutus. (Lusitano, Zacuto) ZACUTI LUSITANI, MEDICI, ET PHILOSPHI PRAETANTISSIMI, DE MEDICORUM PRINCIPUM HISTORIA. OPUS ABSOLUTISSIMUM: IN QUE MEDICINALES OMNES HISTORIAE, DE MORBIS INTERNIS, QUAE PASSIM APUD PRINCIPES MEDICOS OCCURUNT, COMCINNOORDINES DISPONUNTUR, PARAPHRASI, & COMMENTARIIS ILLUSTRANTUR: NECNON QUAESTIONIBUS, DUBIIS, & OBSERUATIONIBUS EXQUISITISSIMIS EXORNAANTUR. EDITIO POSTREMA, AB IPSO AUTHORE, ANTE OBITUM, SUMMA CURA RECOGNITA, & LOCUPLETATA. Two Volumes. Lugduni, Sumptibus Ioannis-Antonii Huguetan, in vico Mercatorio, ad insigne Sphæræ, 1644, (72) + 984, (32), folio. Pictorially engraved title page, portrait as frontispiece, and many decorative initials and head and tail pieces. Cntemporay boards with spine, edges rubbed, the upper right hand corner of pages 877 – 887 are torn off with loss of some words, many worm holes, mainly marginal, some damp staining toward the end of the book, otherwise a very good copy. A monumental work on medicine, of considerable importance and rarity.
Zacuto Lusitano (1575 - 1642) was born in Lisbon in 1575, a descendant of a family of Jews, and, having been baptized, he was Christian again.
He was proud of his ancestors and, in fact, he was a direct descendant of the famous Abraham Ben Samuel Zacuto (c. 1450 - 1532), the astronomer, author of Perpetual Almanac and other books. The family did not escape anti-Semitic persecution.
In Lisbon, he studied, as was customary, Latin, grammar and rhetoric. Later he began his studies in philosophy and medicine in the Universities of Coimbra and Salamanca. Then, he moved to Amsterdam in 1625 and became a famous doctor before dying on New Year's Day 1642.
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