Girolamo Fracastoro

(1478-1553)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553 LBT ID: GiFraca1553 VIAF ID: 32017562 LOC ID: n82027929	B/BAP: 1478 DIED: 1553-08-08
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Italian physician and professor at Padua who wrote a Latin poem on syphilis.
REFERENCES TO Girolamo Fracastoro: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XI. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 2