, was a native of Sienna, which circumstance has procured him to be
, was a native of
Sienna, which circumstance has procured him to be recorded in some biographical works under the name of Hugo
Senensis, and Freher, otherwise a correct biographer, has
given these as distinct persons. He became one of the
most celebrated physicians of the fifteenth century, and not
less esteemed as a philosopher and divine. In such admiration was he held, that his contemporaries hailed him as
another Aristotle and a new Hippocrates; and such was his
memory, that he could readily and promptly give answers
to any questions or doubts that were propounded from the
works of Plato or Aristotle. He was, according to Ghilini,
professor of medicine at Ferrara, and was a member of the
council called to adjust the religious disputes between the
Greeks and Latins. Castellanus informs us, that when Nicholas of Este founded the university of Parma, Bencius
was appointed one of its first professors, and this Bencius
himself confirms in the introduction to his commentary on
Galen. He died at Rome in 1438, according to Castellanus, or in 1448, according to Ghilini. tjis principal works
are, 1, “In aphorismos Hippocratis,
” &c. expositio,“
Venice, 1498, folio, reprinted 1.517, 1523. 2.
” Consilia saluberrima ad omnes Ægritudines,“Venice, 1518, folio.
3.
” In tres libros Microtechni Galeni luculentissimi expositio,“ibid. 1523, fol. 4.
” In primi canonis Avicennufc
Fen primam expositio,“ibid. 1523, fol. 5.
” Supra quarta
Fen primi Avicennae expositio,“ib. 1717. 6.
” In quarti
canonis Avicennse Fen primam expositio," ibid. 1523.
There is an edition of his works, Venice, 2 vols, folio, 1518,
but whether it includes the above is not mentioned in our
authorities.