Johannes_Baptista_Montanus
Johannes Baptista Montanus
Italian physician (1498–1551)
Johannes Baptista Montanus (/mɒnˈteɪnəs/; 1498 – 6 May 1551) is the Latinized name of Giovanni Battista Monte, or Gian Battista da Monte, one of the leading Renaissance humanist physicians of Italy. Montanus promoted the revival of Greek medical texts and practice, producing revisions of Galen as well as of Islamic medical texts by Rhazes and Avicenna. He was himself a medical writer and was regarded as a second Galen.