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Michele Savonarola

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Italian physician, humanist and historian

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.

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

Works

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

References

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