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Fracastoro

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Fra·cas·to·ro (fräkä-str), 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.


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The book deals extensively with Girolamo Fracastoro and his writings on contagion.
Douglas Biow. Doctors, Ambassadors, and Secretaries: Humanism and ... by Fubini, Riccardo / Renaissance Quarterly
Lucretius and Lucretian science in the works of Fracastoro.
Giorgione's Tempest, studiolo culture, and the Renaissance Lucretius * by Campbell, Stephen J. / Renaissance Quarterly
[29] Discussing the Discourses on the Heroic Poem, Annabel Patterson argues that Tasso justifies the romance elements of his own poem in part by claiming, after Girolamo Fracastoro, that the epic poet above all seeks to imitate the Idea of the Beautiful.
Tasso's enchantress, Tasso's captive woman [*] by GOUGH, MELINDA J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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