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Paolo Giovio
Italian prelate, physician and biographer (–)
For the bishop of Nocera de' Pagani, see Paolo Giovio (il Giovane).
Paolo Giovio (also spelled Paulo Jovio; Latin: Paulus Jovius; 19 April &#;– 11 December )[1] was an Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate.
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Early life
Little is known about Giovio's youth. He was a native of Como; his family was from the Isola Comacina of Lake Como. His father, a notary, died around He was educated under the direction of his elder brother Benedetto, a humanist and historian.
Although interested in literature, he was sent to Padua to study medicine. He graduated in
Career
Giovio worked as physician in Como but, after the plague spread in that city he moved to Rome, settling there in Pope Leo X assigned him a cathedra (chair) of Moral Philosophy and, later, that of Natural Philosophy in the Roman university.
He was also knighted by the Pope.[2] In the same period he started to write his