Girolamo Fracastoro
1478 CE–1553 CE · Verona
Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation. His studies of the mode of syphilis transmission are an early example of epidemiology.
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Verona, a city in the Veneto region of northern Italy, had a Jewish presence attested from the tenth century and a rabbinic court by the thirteenth; the poet and exegete Abraham ibn Ezra resided there in the twelfth century. A walled ghetto was established in 1599-1600, and the community included both Italian and, later, Ashkenazi and Sephardi congregations.
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