Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno Quotations

Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno (died 1185) was a noted physician and ecclesiastic, archbishop of Salerno from 1058, who worked at the famous Schola Medica Salernitana.

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...ad doctrinam huiusmodi copiosius a perpluribus dicta auctoribus, et praecipue ab his quos mater educavit Graecia, Latinorum cogente penuria, . . . transferenda conferam
- Translation: ...for the teaching of this kind I will devote myself to translating what is said more fully by many authors, and especially those whom mother Greece educated, whilst the Latins were oppressed by lack, . . . of knowledge.http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/phil/DIDASCALIA/2CHBURNE.PDF
- From the preface to his translation of the Premnon phisicon of Nemesius.

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Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum
- Translation: Medicine was so advanced in Salerno that there was no place for illness.http://www.comune.salerno.it/la_salerno_turistica/default_en.asp?page=/la_salerno_turistica/la_storia/scuola_medica_en.asp

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