Montagnana, Bartholommeo, who is briefly alluded to at the end of Book I. chap. xv. of De Magnete, was the head of a well-known family of Italian physicians. He was born about 1400, practised medicine at Bologna and Padua, and wrote “Consilia Medica, edita Paduæ anno 1436,” also “De Balneis Patav.; de compositione et dosi medicamentorum,” the latter appearing at Padua in 1556.
References.—Papadopoli (Nicolaus Comnenus), “Historia Gymnasii Patavavini,” I; Manget (Jean Jacques), “Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum”; “Biog. Générale,” Vol. XXXVI. p. 34.
Montanus, Arias—Benedictus (1527–1598), eminent Spanish Catholic divine and orientalist, member of the Council of Trent, is best known by his Polyglott Bible—Biblia Regia or Biblia Plantiniana—though he is the author of many works, mostly religious, published during the years 1569, 1571, 1572, 1574 and 1593. Upon completing the last of the eight folio volumes of the Biblia, he was offered, but declined, a bishopric by King Philip II, at whose request he had undertaken the work and who, later on, rewarded him with a liberal pension and other emoluments.
He is but briefly referred to by Gilbert, De Magnete, Book I. chap. i.
References.—Antonio (Nicolas), “Bibl. Hisp. Nova”; D. Nicol. M. Serrano, “Appendice al Dicc. Univ.,” Madrid, 1881, Vol. XIV. p. 407; “Diccionario Enciclopedico Hispano-Americano,” Barcelona, 1887, Vol. II. p. 596; Loumyer (C.), “Vie de B. A. Montano,” 1842; “Biog. Gén.,” Vol. III. pp. 145–146; Rosenmüeller (Ernst Friedrich Carl), “Handbuch für die Literatur,” Vol. III. p. 296; Colomiès (Paul), “Italia et Hispania Orientalis,” p. 241.
Montanus—Da Monte—Joannes Baptista (1488–1551), already mentioned in connection with Lusitanus, was a Professor of Medicine at the Padua University and regarded as one of the most celebrated physicians of his day. He is the author of many valuable works, including “Metaphrasis Summaria,” 1551, “De Differentiis Medicamentorum,” 1551; “In Nonum librum; Rhazès ad Almansorem Expositio,” 1554, 1562.
References.—Tiraboschi (Girolamo), “Storia della Letteratura Italiana”; Facciolati (Jacopo), “Fasti Gymnasii Patavini,” par. III; Gilbert, De Magnete, Book I. chap. i.; “Biog. Générale,” Vol. XXXVI. pp. 108–109.
Myrepsus—Myrepsius—Nicolaus, Greek physician, living in the thirteenth century, became very prominent in Rome as a great student of the Arabic writers. He is the author, more particularly, of a medical treatise, divided into forty-eight sections containing as many as two thousand six hundred and fifty-six formulæ, which was translated by Leonard Fuchs under the title “Nic. Myr. Alex. medicamentorum opus,” Basle, 1549, and frequently reprinted, whilst another translation was made by Nicolas de Reggio, who, like Matthæus Silvaticus, was a physician at Salerno and who called it “Nic. Alex. liber de compositione medicamentorum,” Ingoldstadt, 1541. The last-named work has, by some, been confounded with the “Antidotarium” of Nicolas Præpositas.
Myrepsus is spoken of by Gilbert, Book I, at end of chap. xiv. De Magnete treating of the medicinal virtue of the loadstone. Nicolaus, says he, puts into his “divine plaster” a good deal of loadstone, as do the Augsburg doctors in their “black plaster” for fresh wounds and stabs; because of the exsiccating effect of the loadstone without corrosion, it becomes an efficacious and useful remedy. Paracelsus, in like manner, and for the same end, makes loadstone an ingredient of his plaster for stab wounds.
References.—Fabricius (Johann Albert), “Bibliotheca Græca,” Vol. X. p. 292; Vol. XII. pp. 4, 346; Kastner (Christian Wilhelm), “Medicin. Gelehrten-Lexikon,” p. 577; Freind (John), “Hist. of Physic,” Vol. I. p. 464; Hœfer (M. F.), “Hist. de la Chimie,” Vol. I; Sprengel (Kurt Polycarp Joachim), “Geschichte der Arzneikunde,” Vol. II. p. 334; Larousse, “Dict. Univ.,” Vol. XI. p. 744; “Biog. Générale,” Vol. XXXVII. p. 92.