Vittore Trincavelli

Vittore Trincavelli (1496–1568), also known as Vettore Trincavelli, was an Italian physician and scholar. He was born and died in Venice. He began his medical studies at the University of Padua and later moved to the University of Bologna, where his expertise in Ancient Greek earned him the title of "Greek scholar." After seven years in Bologna, he returned to Padua to obtain his medical doctorate and then took up a position at the University of Venice as a successor to Sebastian Fuscareni in the chair of philosophy. His career involved teaching, private studies, and medical practice, notably serving the island of Murano during an epidemic. In 1551, he became a professor of medicine at Padua, succeeding Johannes Baptista Montanus. He was the first to lecture on Hippocrates in the original Greek. Due to declining health, he resigned his professorship and returned to Venice, where he died in 1568.