elysius

Updated: May 14, 2025

That distinguished savant, your doctor, Joannes Baptista Elysius, thinks that this black wood is ebony. It is to the manufacture of these articles that the islanders devote the best of their native ingenuity.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera

Baptista Elysius, who is a remarkable philosopher and doctor of medicine, was in possession of certain small stones they had gathered on the shores of that region, and he thinks they are topazes. He told you this in my presence.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera