Jean-Michel Agasse

Girolamo Mercuriale and Johann Crato were both well-known and well-connected physicians when they met in Vienna in 1573. They met only briefly, but maintained a regular correspondence until Crato's death twelve years later. Several of the letters included here are unpublished, and none have ever been translated into French. Medicine, politics and religion are, of course, discussed, but the nitty-gritty of life also appears in discussions of vacant positions and rivalries, polemics, court and ...