869610 Syphilitic man, 1496 (woodcut) by D羹rer or Duerer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Private Collection; (add.info.: Probably brought by Conquistadores from the New World to Naples syphilis was carried throughout Western Europe by Northern mercenaries (Landsknechten) whose clothing the man wears. Theodorious Ulsenius (c.1460-1508) of Nuremburg believed that the syphilis epidemic of 1484 was due to the negative conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn in Scorpio. ); German, out of copyright.