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Girolamo Franzosi

Girolamo Franzosi was an Italian physician and philosopher.

He was born in Polpenazza (now Polpenazze del Garda), near the Lombard lakeshore, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Franzosi was a student at Padua and became a convinced Aristotelian. He opposed the anatomists of the Neoteric Academy, which represented the new trends of medicine in Verona in contrast to the Galenic tendencies of traditional medicine.

Franzosi's other works, written under the influence of Girolamo Cardano and Agostino Nifo, deal with such wide-ranging topics as dreams, prophecies, imagination, and the medicinal properties of viper venom. He printed most of his works in Verona, calling himself "medicus and philosopher of Verona".

Date and place of birt:?, Polpenazze del Garda, Italy
Date and place of death:?, Italy
Period of activity: XVI, XVII century
Specialization:Doctor, Philosopher