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FRACASTORO [FRACASTORIUS], GIROLAMO

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FRACASTORO [FRACASTORIUS], See also:GIROLAMO [HIERONYMUS] (1483-1553), See also:Italian physician and poet, was See also:born at See also:Verona in 1483. It is related of him that at his See also:birth his lips adhered so closely that a surgeon was obliged to See also:divide them with his incision See also:knife, and that during his See also:infancy his See also:mother was killed by See also:lightning, while he, though in her arms at the moment, escaped unhurt. Fracastoro became eminently skilled, not only in See also:medicine and belles-lettres, but in most arts and sciences. He studied at See also:Padua, and became See also:professor of See also:philosophy there in 1502, afterwards practising as a physician in Verona. It was by his See also:advice that See also:Pope See also:Paul III., on See also:account of the prevalence of a contagious distemper, removed the See also:council of See also:Trent to See also:Bologna. He was the author of many See also:works, both poetical and medical, and was intimately acquainted with See also:Cardinal See also:Bembo, See also:Julius See also:Scaliger, Gianbattista See also:Ramusio (q.v.), and most of the See also:great men of his See also:time. In 1517, when the builders of the citadel of See also:San Felice (Verona) found fossil mussels in the rocks, Fracastoro was consulted about the marvel, and he took the same view—following Leonardo da See also:Vinci, but very advanced for those days—that they were the remains of animals once capable of living in the locality. He died of See also:apoplexy at Casi, near Verona, on the 8th of See also:August 1553; and in 1559 the See also:town of Verona erected a statue in his See also:honour, The See also:principal See also:work of Fracastoro is a See also:kind of medical poem entitled Syphilidis, live Morbi Gallici, libri tres (Verona, 153o), which has been often reprinted and also translated into See also:French and Italian. Among his other works (all published at See also:Venice) are De vini temperatura (1534); Homocenlricorum (1535); De sympatha et antipathia return (1546); and De contagionibus (1546). His See also:complete works were published at Venice in 1555, and his poetical productions were collected and printed at Padua in 1728.

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