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Alessandro Pastore and Enrico Peruzzi, eds. Girolamo Fracastoro: Fra medicina, filosofia e scienze della natura. Istituto e Museo di Storia Della Scienza. Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi, no. 58. Proceedings of the international convention held to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of Fracastoro, Verona-Padua, 9-11 October 2003. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. 362 pp. Ill. [euro]36.00 (paperbound, 88-222-5523-2).
The collective volume reviewed here gathers twenty-one papers presented by participants-all of them Italian except for two British and one Japanese-at a conference held in Verona and Padua in 2003 concerning the life, works, and historical legacy of Girolamo Fracastoro (1476/78-1553) on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his death. This Italian physician, philosopher, and poet studied arts and medicine at the University of Padua and died in his home city of Verona.
Fracastoro's physical absence from any university city during his career did not prevent him-with the help of his family resources, his connections with powerful patrons, and the honoraries and contacts...