Fracastoro [frä′kä-stō′rō]Girolamo 1483-1553 Italian physician and poet who wrote the poem Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (1530), in which the name syphilis was first given to the disease. Liberaldictionary.com
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The medical opinion of Fracastoro, writing from a distance, may not be of much value.
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2)
T. Adolphus Trollope
The celebrated physician and poet Fracastoro, was written to in Verona.
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2)
T. Adolphus Trollope
Among modern Pagans none is more completely bare of Christianity than Fracastoro.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)
John Addington Symonds
Fracastoro became eminently skilled, not only in medicine and belles-lettres, but in most arts and sciences.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7
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Here -32-Fracastoro attempts to explain the Aristotelian conception of the type with the aid of the Platonic notion of beauty.
A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance
Joel Elias Spingarn