This beautiful monument to the memory Maciej Barski Kochler can be seen inside the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova in Florence where the young Polish physician worked for a while. The Latin inscription reads as follows: “D.O.M. / MATTHIAE COCHLERO BARSKI / EQ POLONO DOCT PHYSICO, / QUI CUM HOC LOCO MULTIS INDUSTRIAM / FIDEMQ SUAM COMPROBASSET, / AD SIGISM III POLONORUM REGEM / PROFECTURUS, GENTIQ SUAE PROFUTURUS, 7 FEBRI ACUTA DECESSIT, / IOANNES CAN GRACOVIENSIS, ANNAE / IAGELLONIAE REGINAE POL THEOLOGUS / ET ANDREAS I V D SECR REGIUS, / FRATI OPT MEDIOXIMO / MOESTISS POSS / VIXIT ANN XXXVIII OBIITXU KAL OCT / ANNO MDXCI / QUOD VIX UNA DOMUS PRODUCIT, / GENS QUOQUE TATA
HOC TULIT UNA DOMUS / GENSQUE POLONA SIMUL”1.
- Photos by Luca Borghi @ (December 2008)
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