Guglielmo Gratarolo or Grataroli or Guilelmus Gratarolus was an Italian doctor and alchemist.
Biography
Gratorolo studied in Padua and Venice. A Calvinist, Gratarolo sought refuge in Graubünden, Strasbourg, and finally settled in Basel in 1552. There, he taught medicine and edited a number works, particularly alchemical ones, notable among them the 1561 collection Verae alchemiae artisque metallicae published by the printer Henricus Petrus, and reprinted in 1572.
''Verae alchemiae artisque metallica''
Verae alchemiae artisque metallica relied heavily on the earlier printed alchemical collection De Alchemia and was in turn heavily relied upon for the Theatrum Chemicum. Gratorolo omitted only the Tabula Smaragdina and Ortulanus' commentary on it from volume 1; these had been published separately a year earlier in 1560, although falsely attributed to Johannes de Garlandia. Above all, Gratorolo wanted to publish the works of Pseudo-Lull and Pseudo-Geber. The contents of the 1561 edition are as follows:. Volume 1:
Giovanni Bracesco, Dialogus Ioannis Braccschi, cui titulus est Lignum vitae, in quo etiam Gebri Philosophi expositio succincta continentur
In eundem Braceschuni Gebri interpretem, animadversio, authore loanne Tauladano;
Pseudo-Geber, De investigatione perfectionis;
Pseudo-Geber, Summa perfectionis;
Pseudo-Geber, De inventione veritatis sive perfectionis;
Pseudo-Geber, Liber Fornacum;
Roger Bacon, Rogerii Bachonis De Alchemia libellus cui titulum fecit. Speculum Alchemiae;
Ricardus Anglicus, Richardi Anglici Libellus peri Chemeias, cui titulum fecit, Correctorium;
Rosarius minor;
Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber Secretorum Alchemiae compositus per Calid, filium Iazichi;
Loci aliquot practiciae ex Gebero declatali per... Joannen Braceschum Vrceanum.
Volume 2:
Liber de Magni lapidis Compositione et Operatione, Authore adhuc incerto;
Sententia Ioannis Baptistae Montani, de sublimatione;
Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Rosarius philosophorum Arnaldi de Villanova;
Novum lumen eiusdem vel alterius;
Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Epistola Magistri Arnaldi de Villa nova super Alchymiam ad regem Neapolitanum;
Liber perfecti Magisteri, qui Lumen Luminum nuncupatur... vocatur etiam Flos florum Arnaldi de Villanova, longe correctior & melior hactenus impressis;
Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Practica Magistri Arnaldi de Villanova, ad quendam Papam, ex libro dicto, Breviarius librorum Alchymiae;
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus Alberti Magni Ratisponensis episcopi de Alchymia liber integerrimus;
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Scriptum Alberti super Arborem Aristotelis;
Pseudo-Lull, Apertorium Raymundi Lullii De veri lapidis compositione;
Pseudo-Lull, Ars intellectiva ejusdem super Lapidem Philosophorum;
Pseudo-Lull, Practica ejusdem;
Pseudo-Lull, Idem de intentione Alchimistarum;
Pseudo-Lull, Ejusdem Summaria Lapidis Consideratio et eius abbreviationes;
Pseudo-Lull, Ejusdem Libellus utilissimus de Mercurio solo;
