Leonardo Fioravanti (medic)

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Leonardo Fioravanti

Leonardo Fioravanti (* 1518 ; † 1588 in Bologna ) was an Italian doctor during the Renaissance .

Life

Fioravanti began his practice in Spain, as well as in Spanish-ruled Sicily and Naples . Fioravanti then lived in Rome and Venice and eventually died in Bologna. Fioravanti's numerous writings include works on combating the plague (1565), on the relationship between medicine and alchemy (1571), and on surgery (1582). Fioravanti is said to have surgically removed the spleen for the first time and used an antidote for arsenic poisoning .

Among other things, he advocated the theory that syphilis was the result of the cannibalism allegedly practiced by the mercenaries of Charles VIII during the siege of Naples in 1494 and, as evidence, cited experiments he carried out with piglets and puppies that followed a "cannibalistic" diet Ulcers and hair loss, both known symptoms of syphilis.

Works

De 'capricci medicinali , 1670
  • Capricci Medicinali (Venice 1561)
  • Secreti medicinali (Venice 1561)
  • Dello Specchio Di Scientia Universale (Venice 1564)
  • Del Regimento Della Peste (Venice 1565)
  • Del Compendio de i Secreti rationali (Venice 1566)
  • La Cirurgia (Venice 1582)
  • Della Fisica (Venice 1582)
  • Il Tesoro Della Vita Humana (Venice 1582)

literature

  • Piero Camporesi: Camminare il mondo: vita e avventure di Leonardo Fioravanti, medico del Cinquecento. Milan 2007
  • William Eamon: The professor of secrets: mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy. National Geographic, Washington 2010, ISBN 1-426-20650-X
  • Domenico Furfaro: La vita e l'opera di Leonardo Fioravanti. Bologna 1963
  • Davide Giordano: Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese . L. Cappelli, Bologna 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cannibalism and Syphilis
personal data
SURNAME Fioravanti, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1518
DATE OF DEATH 1588
Place of death Bologna