Fracastoro

[ frä′kä-stō′rō ]

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.

Example sentences from the Web for fracastoro

Here -32-Fracastoro attempts to explain the Aristotelian conception of the type with the aid of the Platonic notion of beauty.

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance |Joel Elias Spingarn
Science he regards as not suitable material for poetry, and accordingly such writers as Lucretius and Fracastoro are not poets.

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance |Joel Elias Spingarn
Fracastoro had likened the importance of Aristotle's Poetics to that of his philosophical treatises.

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance |Joel Elias Spingarn
Fracastoro became eminently skilled, not only in medicine and belles-lettres, but in most arts and sciences.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 |Various

The celebrated physician and poet Fracastoro, was written to in Verona.

A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2) |T. Adolphus Trollope