Niccolò Leoniceno (1428–1524) was an Italian physician and humanist. Leoniceno was born in Lonigo, Veneto, the son of a doctor. He studied Greek in Vicenza...
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physician and one of the most famous of his time. He studied under Niccolò Leoniceno and Giovanni Manardo. He was the friend and physician of Ercole II...
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century, the physician-scholar Niccolò Leoniceno was finding errors in Pliny's Natural History. As a physician, Leoniceno was concerned about these botanical...
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ultimate importance of those texts. Professors of medicine such as Niccolò Leoniceno, Thomas Linacre and William Cop were often trained in and taught from...
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James, singer Fedele Lampertico, economist, writer and politician Niccolò Leoniceno, medic Paolo Lioy, naturalist Luigi Meneghello, writer (professor...
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typeface). Libellus de epidemia, quam vulgo morgum Gallicum vocant, Niccolò Leoniceno, June 1497. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna, December...
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Theophrastus's Historia Plantarum). A critical moment was the decision by Niccolò Leoniceno and others to use Dioscorides "as the model of the careful naturalist—and...
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Greek under Demetrios Chalkokondyles at Milan and philosophy under Niccolò Leoniceno at Ferrara. His culture recommended him to the humanist Pope Leo X...
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later Roman writer followed his structure or claimed him as a model. Niccolò Leoniceno published an essay in 1492 listing Pliny's many scientific errors...
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This sentiment can be observed in the early modern period when Niccolò Leoniceno's 1509 De Erroribus Plinii ("On Pliny's Errors") attacked Pliny for...
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defensio (1493) Collenuccio defended Pliny against the accusations of Niccolò Leoniceno. He also composed a substantial collection of lyric poetry both in...
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Institutions University of Ferrara University of Padua Academic advisors Niccolò Leoniceno Marco Musuro Pietro Pomponazzi Doctoral students John Caius Johannes...
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was a novel disease, not described in the traditional authorities. Niccolo Leoniceno conceded that in terms of symptoms it could not be identified as known...
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