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