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especially physicians, to the city of Bologna.168 He was born about the year 1430 and was educated at the University of Bolo

y had long been established,170 the study was pursued with ardour and enthusiasm. Here Manfredi early devoted himself to that will-o'-the-wisp, the pursuit of which absorbed and sterilized many of the best intellects of his day. By the year 1469 he was already regarded as an author

ry' course in Philosophy, and at the same time giving occasional lectures on Medicine. In the following year he was called to the chair of Theoretical Medicine, and in 1469 he helped the Faculty out of a difficulty by giving lectures on 'Astronomia' in place of the aged professor Giovanni de Fundis. The latter died in 1474,

rse of lectures on Astronomy is added 'cum hoc quod faciat iudicium et tachuinum'.173 In spite of his proficiency in the

m mortem: qui nec suam ipse praeuiderit: nam cum proxima estate uita sit functus: in istius tame[n] anni publico uaticinio qui s[cilicet] ei fuit fatalis: multa & mira sequenti anno

rgarita in Bologna. This church no longer exists, but it conta

CVNDO ASTRONOMORVMQVE CITRA INVIDIAM FACILE PRIMARIO. POSVIT SVPERS

one side of this street backed on the very walls of the buildings belonging to the 'University of Medicine',177 and we may suppose

great scientific attainments. All are permeated by the s

sociated in its production with the famous scholar Filippo Beroaldo, and the finely produced volume was published at Bologna in 1472 (?),178 and dedicate

nem sui studiosissimum quemque facillime conuertere potest. Opus utrumque summa adhibita diligentia duo Astrologiae peritissimi castigaueru[n]t Hieronimus Mamfredus &

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ogna Ptolemy, edited

g with the word 'perchè'. There is a servile dedicatory epistle in Latin addressed to Giovanni Bentivoglio. The first book is concerned with diet, and occupies two-?thirds of the volume. The second book answers questions on the subject of physiog

llowing incipit: 'Incomenza el Libro chiamato della uita costumi natura & om[n]e altra cosa pertine[n]te tanto alla cons

author's original dedication slightly altered. The text in this edition commences, 'Perchel s

utilissima ad intendere la cagione de molte cose. By this title, Il Perchè, the work, which ran

by the author himself in the same year. The work owes much to Avicenna, but contains some original clinical observations, and shows a certain independence of the prevailing spirit of the age by quoting opinions of contempor

ologna, 1478. We reproduce the te

Manfredi's Prognosticon ad

Giacomo Maggiore at Bologna Plat

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hort work is wholly astrological, and consists of one hundred precepts concerning the relations

t mentioned in Hain, Copinger, or Reichling's lists of Incunabul

oned in the Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Aerzte of E.

ismorum, Bologna, 1480 (?), mentioned by Haller.

urae vires ad extra, Padua,