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ACHILLINI (1463-1512)  , Italian philosopher, born on the 29th of October 1463 at Bologna, was celebrated as a lecturer both in medicine and in philosophy at Bologna and Padua, and was styled the second Aristotle . His philosophical works were printed in one volume folio, at Venice, in 15o8, and reprinted with considerable additions in 1545, 1551 and 1568 . He was also distinguished as an anatomist (see ANATOMY), among his writings being Corporis humani Anatomia (Venice, 1516-1524), and Anatomicae Annotationes (Bologna, 1520) . He died at Bologna on the 2nd of August 1512 . His brother, GIOVANNI FILOTED ACrLLINI (1466-1533), was the author of Il Viridario and other writings, verse and prose, and his grand-nephew, CLAunIO AC 1LLINI (1574-1640), was a lawyerwho achieved some notoriety as a versifier of the school of the Secentisti .