Gabriel da Fonseca

Gabriel da Fonseca
A bust of Fonseca by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, located in San Lorenzo in Lucina
BornFebruary 1586
Lamego, Portugal
Died12 December 1668 (aged 82)
Parione, Rome
OccupationPhysician

Gabriel da Fonseca (February 1586 - 12 December 1668) was a Portuguese New Christian physician who worked as Pope Innocent X’s personal physician.

He settled in Rome in the 1620s, spending his career treating high-ranking Roman Catholic clergymen. He died in Parione in 1668. A bust of Fonseca, sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is located in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

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