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cm. 17 x 24, 130 pp. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere ?La Colombaria? - Serie Studi Viene ricostruita una brillante personalit? della ?cerchia laurenziana?: il medico e filosofo Pierleone da Spoleto. Il libro fornisce un panorama complesso ed esauriente dei problemi storici della medicina del Quattrocento: il rapporto fra tradizione scolastica e platonismo, la funzione dell? astrologia, il concetto umanistico di imitazione, le discussioni sulla metodologia medica e scientifica. Pier Leone of Spoleto, physician of Lorenzo de? Medici, was one of the most important scientists of the Quattrocento. As a friend of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico, he was interested in the relationship between magic, astrology and practical medicine. But, as a professor at the universities of Pisa and Padua, his chief concern was with didactic order and logical method. His production shows both humanistic and scholastic features. This book provides an accurate reconstruction of his life and works, most of them manuscripts. 260 gr. 130 p.