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FRACASTORO [FRACASTORIUS], GIROLAMO

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 772 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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