title: Giulio Alessandrini
text: # Giulio Alessandrini
  
  Giulio Alessandrini (Latin Julius Alexandrinus or German Julius Alexandrinus von Neustein; 1506 – 25 August 1590) was an Italian physician, author, and poet.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Giulio Alessandrini was born in Trento. He studied philosophy at the University of Padua. He was physician to emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolph II.
  
  He was a devoted follower of Galen and translated many of Galen's works into Latin, adding his own commentary. He died in Civezzano.
  
  ## Works
  
  * De medicina et medico dialogus. Zurich, 1557.
  * In Galeni præcipua scripta, annotationes quæ commentariorum loco esse possunt. Accessit Trita illa de theriaca quaestio. Basel, 1581.
  * Pædotrophia carmine (1559).
  * Paedotrophia sive de puerorum educatione. Liber ab auctore recognitus. Ejusdem carmina alia. Trent, 1586.
  * Salubrium, sive de sanitate tuenda, libri triginta tres. Cologne, 1575 — A treatise on hygiene compiled from ancient authors.
  