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'Paul Jovius', (1483-1552), 1830. Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) Italian physician, historian, biographer, and prelate. Assigned chair of Moral Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in the Roman university by Pope Leo X. Personal physician for Cardinal Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, he assisted Clement VII during the 1527 sack of Rome. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]