Assertion: syphilis | /r/ObjectUse | used by poet
Facets:
value: in 1530
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1530, the pastoral name "syphilis" (the name of a character) was first used by the Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro as the title of his Latin poem in dactylic hexameter describing the ravages of the disease in Italy.