Balamio, Ferdinand
, of Sicily, was physician to
pope Leo X. who had a high esteem for him. He was no
less skilled in the belles lettres than in medicine and cultivated poetry and Greek with much success. He translated, from the Greek into Latin, several pieces of Galen;
which were first printed separately, and afterwards inserted in the works of that ancient physician, published
at Venice in 1586, in folio. He flourished at Rome about
the year 1555. 1
1 Moreri. Mongitor Bibl. Sicilienne. Mangel.
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