Fracastoro's Syphilis. Introduction, Text, Translation, Notes

by Geoffrey Eatough

Girolamo Fracastoro (?1478-1553) was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. He was born in the northern Italian city of Verona, into a prominent local family. Verona is at one of the crossroads of Europe, and although Fracastoro's whole life was spent in that vicinity, he maintained a wide circle of friends and correspondents, keeping up-to-date with what was going on elsewhere. Two cataclysmic events - the European voyages to the New World, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0905205200
• ISBN13: 9780905205205
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications
• Length: 295 Pages