Constantine the African
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Constantine the African (Latin Constantinus Africanus) was an eleventh-century translator of Greek medical texts.
He was a native of Carthage, then under Arab rule. As a Christian he had a good knowledge of Latin, enabling him to translate medical works from Arabic. He was invited to join the Schola Medica Salernitana by Alfano I, Archbishop of Salerno c.1065 in order to aid in the translation of various Arabic manuscript. In this way he helped reintroduced Greek medicine to Christian Europe. His translations of Hippocrates and Galen first gave the West a view of Greek medicine as a whole. He also adapted popular Arabic handbooks for travellers into his Viaticum. The twentieth chapter of the first book of that work deals with the subject of love.