Michele Savonarola

Summary

Michele Savonarola (1385 - c.1466) was an Italian physician, humanist and historian. He was professor of practical medicine at Padua before in 1440 becoming court physician to the House of Este at Ferrara.[1]

His grandson was the Dominican Order friar and preacher Girolamo Savonarola.

Works edit

  • Practica maior
  • De regimine pregnantium
  • De tutte cose se magnano
  • De balneis
  • Speculum phisionomie
  • Del felice progresso
  • De nuptiis Batibecho et Seraboca

References edit

  1. ^ Kurt M. Boughan, review of Michele Savonarola, Medicina e cultura di corte by Chiara Crisciani and Gabriella Zuccolin, The Medieval Review, 13 October 2003