The Laudation of the Medic. Jan Zamoyski's Speech Delivered on the Funeral of Gabriele Falloppio, the Anatomist (1562)

The study considers the issue of praise of the medic in the XVIth century using an example of Latin oratio funebris delivered by Jan Sariusz Zamoyski during the funeral of Gabriele Falloppio in 1562. Fallopius was a brilliant anatomist whose findings have remained valid to this day, an excellent botanist, an outstanding surgeon and physician, and an esteemed lecturer at the University of Padua. Oratio funebris contained praise based on the biography of the deceased and thus it could realise the humanistic assumptions of providing personal models to follow in the pursuit of virtue. The article presents an analysis of choices made by the speaker regarding rhetorical inventio and amplificatio, and modes of praising.