{"id":3238,"date":"2010-06-07T18:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fracastoro-girolamo\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:34:08","slug":"fracastoro-girolamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fracastoro-girolamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracastoro, Girolamo *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Fracastoro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27825\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Fracastoro-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fracastoro\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Fracastoro-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Fracastoro.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><strong>Girolamo<\/strong> <strong>F<\/strong><strong>racastoro <\/strong><strong>(1478-1553),<\/strong> was an Italian physician born in Verona. He is credited with writing, in 1530, the first treatise on syphilis, in a three-volume poem, <em>S<\/em><em>yphilis <\/em><em>s<\/em><em>ive <\/em><em>m<\/em><em>orbus <\/em><em>G<\/em><em>allicus (Syphilis or the French Disease).<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup>Around the same time, Fracastoro identified the then recently discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/america\/\">Americas<\/a> as Atlantis,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>connecting the origin of the New World people with Atlas and Atlantis<\/em><em>.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup> and furthermore in the first story he <em>&#8220;illustrates the voyage of Cristoforo Colombo in the West Indies, where the disease (syphilis) was overwhelming among the natives because of a curse from the gods of the lost city of Atlantis.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(c)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1657561\/?page=4\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1657561\/?page=4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240531104457\/https:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/paperinformation?paperid=79201\">Girolamo Fracastoro and the Origin of the Etymology of Syphilis (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4631234\/\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4631234\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), was an Italian physician born in Verona. He is credited with writing, in 1530, the first treatise on syphilis, in a three-volume poem, Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or the French Disease).(a) Around the same time, Fracastoro identified the then recently discovered Americas as Atlantis, &nbsp; &#8220;connecting the origin of the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63179,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/63179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}