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1504.
| James Cataneus original: "Iacobus Cataneus" | page 37 |
1505.
| (*) Philip Beroaldo original: "Philippus Beroaldus" | 40 |
| George Vella original: "Georg Vella" | 39 |
| Lawrence Phrisius original: "Lorenz Phrisius" A Dutch physician also known as Laurentius Phries. | 40 |
1506.
| Peter Trapolin original: "Petrus Trapolinus" | 41 |
| Peter Maynard original: "Peter Maynardus" | 42 |
| (*) Marcantonio Coccio original: "Marcus Antonius Coccius" | |
| Sabellicus Sabellicus was the pen name of Marcantonio Coccio, a prominent Venetian historian. | 41 |
1507.
| John Vochs original: "Iohannes Vochs" | 43 |
| Angelo Bolognini original: "Angelus Bologninus" | 44 |
1508.
| John Benedict original: "Iohannes Benedictus" | 45 |
1509.
| (*) Battista Fregoso original: "Baptista Fulgosius" | 46 |
| (*) Ferdinand Columbus original: "Ferdinand Columbus" The second son of Christopher Columbus; his inclusion is significant for the "American origin" theory of syphilis. | 47 |
1512.
| John Droyn original: "Iohannes Droyn" | 47 |
1514.
| John of Vigo original: "Iohannes de Vigo" Surgeon to Pope Julius II; his work was one of the most influential surgical manuals of the 16th century. | 48 |
1517.
| Nicholas Poll original: "Nicolaus Poll" | 49 |
1518.
| Leonhard Schmaus | 50 |
1519.
| Ulrich von Hutten A German knight and scholar who famously wrote about his own struggle with the disease and his treatment with guaiacum wood. | 51 |
1520.
| Desiderius Erasmus The famous humanist scholar who frequently commented on the social and moral impact of the "French disease" in his colloquies. | 58 |
1521.
| Girolamo Fracastoro original: "Hieronymus Fracastorius" A landmark figure in medical history who published the poem "Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus" in 1530, from which the disease eventually took its name. | page 60 |
| Jean Lemaire original: "Iohannes le Mayre" | 66 |
1525.
| Giovanni Manardi original: "Iohannes Manardus" | 68 |
| Niccolò Leoniceno original: "Nicolaus Leonicus" | 71 |
| Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo original: "Hernandez de Oviedo" Spanish historian whose accounts of the New World linked the disease to the Americas. | 72 |
| (*) Leo Africanus original: "Iohannes Leo" | 73 |
| (*) Paolo Giovio original: "Paulus Ioyius" | 76 |
| (*) Antonio de Herrera | 76 |
| (*) Girolamo Benzoni original: "Hieronymus Benzonus" | 76 |
1526.
| John of Fogueda original: "Iohannes de Fogueda" | 77 |
1527.
| Ruy Díaz de Isla A Spanish physician who claimed to have treated the first sailors returning with Columbus who were infected with the disease. | 77 |
| Jacques de Béthencourt The first French writer to suggest the name "Venereal Disease" (Morbus Venereus) as a more appropriate term than "French Disease." | 77 |
1528.
| Theophrastus Paracelsus The revolutionary Swiss physician and alchemist who criticized traditional treatments and pioneered the use of chemical minerals, including mercury, in medicine. | 79 |
1529.
| Francisco Delgado original: "Franciscus Delgado" | 82 |
| (*) Magnus Hundt | 83 |
1532.
| (*) Francesco Guicciardini original: "Franciscus Guicciardinus" | 84 |
| Niccolò Massa original: "Nicolaus Massa" | 84 |
1533.
| John Elisius original: "Iohannes Elisius" | 86 |
| Louis Isla original: "Ludovicus Isla" | 86 |
1534.
| John Paschalis original: "Iohannes Paschalis" | 86 |
| Agostino Nifo original: "Augustinus Niphus" | 87 |
1535.
| Leonhard Fuchs A renowned German botanist and physician, now best remembered for the flowering plant "fuchsia" named in his honor. | 88 |
| Pietro Andrea Mattioli original: "Petrus Andreas Matthiolus" | 89 |
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