Gabriel da Fonseca
Portuguese New Christian physician (1586 - 1668) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabriel da Fonseca (February 1586 - 12 December 1668)[1] was a Portuguese New Christian physician who worked as Pope Innocent X’s personal physician.[2]
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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.