Johann Nikolaus Stupanus
Johann Nikolaus Stupanus was an Italian-Swiss physician, known also as a translator. He was the father of Emmanuel Stupanus.Life
He was originally from Pontresina, and joined the faculty of medicine at Basel. He taught theoretical medicine there from 1589 to 1620 and developed a systematic medical semiology.Works
Stupanus wrote an introduction to the second edition of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli; it was a Latin translation by Silvestro Tegli, and published at Basel by Pietro Perna, both Italian Protestants in exile and followers of Caelius Secundus Curio. Stupanus committed a provocation by dedicating the work to the Catholic bishop Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee, and for a time was deprived of his teaching post. In 1588 a Latin translation of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy by Stupanus himself was published.
