Giovanni da Vigo
Italian physician and surgeon · Doctors · Lived 1450 to 1525 · aged 75
Giovanni da Vigo (1450-1525) was an Italian surgeon. He studied under Battista di Rapallo, surgeon to the Marquis of Saluzzo. His early years of practice were spent in Genoa and a statue of him can be found in front of the old Civic hospital in Rapallo.
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In 1495 Vigo moved to Savona and became acquainted with Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. When the Cardinal was made Pope Julius II in 1503, he took Vigo with him to Rome, appointing him as his official surgeon. He was with the Pope in the attack on Bologna and cured the Pope of a nodule on his hand.
