Alfanus von Salerno war ein Dichter, Übersetzer medizinischer Schriften, Benediktiner in Montecassino und Salerno und von 1058 bis zu seinem Tod Erzbischof von Salerno. Wikipedia
“Medicine was so advanced in Salerno that there was no place for illness.”
Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum
Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
http://www.comune.salerno.it/la_salerno_turistica/default_en.asp?page=/la_salerno_turistica/la_storia/scuola_medica_en.asp. <br class="br">Attributed
“…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.”
...ad doctrinam huiusmodi copiosius a perpluribus dicta auctoribus, et praecipue ab his quos mater educavit Graecia, Latinorum cogente penuria, . . . transferenda conferam
Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno
From the preface to his translation http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/phil/DIDASCALIA/2CHBURNE.PDF of the Premnon phisicon of Nemesius.
