Codice albumGBB-F-006319

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006319-0000

1582, ITALY: Portrait of LEONARDO FIORAVANTI (1517-1583 ca). Engraving woodcut, 16th Century, frontespice of book by Fioravanti" LA CIRURGIA. Distinta in tre libri", 1582. Leonardo Fioravanti was a noted doctor, surgeon and alchemist active in Italy in the 16th century. He lived for a time in Rome and in Venice, and also in other important Italian cities. In Palermo, he performed the first recorded splenectomy on Italian soil. Fioravanti died in Bologna after 1583 (possible in 1588)

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