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SECOND GENERATION 
3. Marreo I, said to have written a G/ossa ; flor. 1070-1090, 
Renzi. 
4. Giovannt II, also a medical writer ; flor. 1070-1090, Renzi ; 
if born c. 1040 may have written c. 1090 and died c. 1120; 
author, according to Renzi, of the Practica brevis. 
5. TRoTULA, author of work on diseases of women, of which 
an extant abstract * was printed by Renzi in the first volume of 
the Collectio Salernitana, Naples, 1852. In this she cites Copho 
(the elder?), c. 17, and twice in c. 57 cites ‘the Salernitan 
women physicians.” + She is commonly called the wife, and by 
Renzi the mother, of a Joannes Platearius. She may have been 
wife of Giovanni II, and mother or aunt of Matteo II; but not 
mother of Giovanni II, as Renzi thought, if Meyer is right in at- 
tributing chronological order } to the Breslau list of Salernitan 
writers reading “ Platearius (¢. ¢., Giovanni I), Copho (the younger) 
Petronius, Joannes Afflacius (scholar under Constantinus ; about 
1170-80 ?), Bartholomaeus, Ferrarius and Trotula.”—The Encyc. 
Brit. says of her: ‘‘ The most noted female professor was the cele- 
- brated Trotula in the 11th century, believed to be wife of Joannes 
* Five editions of the abstract of Trotula are in the British Museum, fide its catalog 
of 1897, viz.: ‘ 
‘**Trotulae de mulierum passionibus, ante, in et post partum. .« 
of 1544, bound with the treatise ‘‘ Experimentarius Medicinae.’’ 
“*Trotulae curandum aegritudinum muliebrium, ante, in et post partum,”’ being 
another edition of the preceding and bearing the more usual title; also printed 1544 
d with the ‘* Experimentarius.’’ 
“ Trotulae curandum,”’ etc., bound with Victorius’ Empirica; 1554- 
**Trotulae sive potius Erotis, muliebrium liber;”’ an edition of the preceding, 
forming part of the Gynaecium, in the volume (i), edited by Caspar Wolff, of Zurich ; 
Basle, 1586 (first published 1566, as ‘*Gynaecium, hoc est de mulierum. . . morbis,’” 
“with ntaries of Greek, Latin, Barbarous and recent writers, four tomes,” which 
finally all appeared at Basle, 1586-8; tome ii, edited by Caspar Bauhin ; iii, Hippo- 
crates, by M. Cordaeus; iv, by L. Mercato). 
, “‘Trotulae curandarum,’’ etc., ‘‘ libellus e recensione Aldo emen 
animadversionibus illustratus.’? With Kornmann’s ««Questiones de virginum statu 
i 
. liber,’’ a folio 
dationibus atque 
*? as Meyer, 3: 480, trans- 
lates her words from Collectio Salernitana, 1+ 149- 
{ But chronological order may very probably have been intended by the scribe 
only for the men; had he mentioned two or more women he would probably have 
n a new chronological list with them. 
