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Petrus Hispanus was the only practicing physician ever to become Pope (1276-77). By all accounts he was an interim choice when rival French and Italian Cardinals could not elect one of their own nationality. Although not clearly responsible for any major political actions by the Church, Petrus was famous for several centuries after his death because of his secular writings - a text on logic (Summulae logicales) and a handbook on medicine (Thesaurus pauperum).

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[Petrus Hispanus, medieval physician elected as Pope named John XXI: Sketck of medicine in the Middle Age].

Rev Chilena Infectol

October 2013

Programa de Estudios Médicos Humanísticos, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile,

The Pope John XXI, named Pedro Rebuli Guiliani, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, around 1215. Known as Petrus Hispanus, Master Jullian, Peter of Spain, among other names. Besides medical studies, he studied Theology , Aristotelic Physics and Metaphysics at the University of Paris.

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This paper discusses where Portuguese physicians studied medicine. The careers of two thirteenth-century physicians, Petrus Hispanus and Giles of Santarem, indicate that the Portuguese travelled abroad to study in Montpellier or Paris. But it is also possible that there were opportunities for study in Portugal itself.

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