Didactic poem · 1530

Syphilis

A Poetical History of the French Disease

by Girolamo Fracastoro

Translated by Nahum Tate (1686)

Fracastoro's Latin didactic poem on the origin, nature and cure of the new disease that gave syphilis its name, in Nahum Tate's English couplets.

Contents · 1 part

• Syphilisabout 1440 lines

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