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Hieronymus Fracastorius. Line engraving, 1688.

Hieronymus Fracastorius. Line engraving, 1640.

Hieronymus Fracastorius [Girolamo Fracastoro]. Line engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1682.

Girolamo Fracastoro. Photograph after a bust by R. Righe, 1932.

Hieronymus Fracastorius. Woodcut by T. Stimmer, 1589, after F. Torbido.

Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 1588/1595, after Christoph Schwartz.

Hieronymus Fracastorius. Line engraving by F.C., 1739.

Nicolas Copernicus explaining his planetary system to Alexander VI and artists of the Papal court. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by [W.G.] after A. Gerson.

Hieronymus Fracastorius. Line engraving, 1805, after [N.].

A bibliography of the poem "Syphilis, sive, Morbus gallicus", by Girolamo Fracastoro... / [Leona Baumgartner].

Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease / Written in Latin ... And now attempted in English by N. Tate. [With life of Fracastorius].

The scientific position of Girolamo Fracastoro (1478?-1553) : with especial reference to the source, character and influence of his theory of infection / by Charles and Dorothea Singer.

Opera omnia, in unum proxime post illius mortem collecta : Accessit index locupletissimus / [Girolamo Fracastoro].

Opera omnia, in unum proxime post illius mortem collecta, quorum nomina sequens pagina plenius indicat / Accesserunt Andreae Navgerii, patricii veneti, orationes duae carminaque nonnulla ... Cum illustriss. Senatus veneti decreto.

La sifilide / poema di Girolamo Fracastoro ; tradotto da Gio. Luigi Zaccarelli.

Poemata omnia, nunc multo, quam antea, emendatiora / Accesserunt reliquiae Joannis Cottae, Jacobi Bonfadii, Adami Fumani, Nicolai Archii, poetarum Veronensium. [Edited by G.A. Volpi].

Homocentrica. Ejusdem de causis criticorum dierum per ea quae in nobis sunt ... / [Girolamo Fracastoro].

De contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione. Libri III / translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright.

The maidens blush: or, Ioseph : mirror of modesty, map of pietie, maze of destinie, or rather diuine prouidence. From the Latin of Fracastorius, translated; & dedicated to the high-hopefull Charles, Prince of Wales. By Iosuah Syluester.

Hieronymus Fracastor's syphilis : from the original Latin.

Della sifilide ovvero del morbo gallico ... libri III / Volgarizzati da Vincenzo Benini. Con annotazioni.

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Girolamo Fracastoro

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De contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione. Libri III / translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright.

Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease / Written in Latin ... And now attempted in English by N. Tate. [With life of Fracastorius].

The maidens blush: or, Ioseph : mirror of modesty, map of pietie, maze of destinie, or rather diuine prouidence. From the Latin of Fracastorius, translated; & dedicated to the high-hopefull Charles, Prince of Wales. By Iosuah Syluester.

Hieronymus Fracastor's syphilis : from the original Latin.

Della sifilide ovvero del morbo gallico ... libri III / Volgarizzati da Vincenzo Benini. Con annotazioni.

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Girolamo Fracastoro

Images from the collections

Images by Girolamo Fracastoro

Images featuring Girolamo Fracastoro

Works from the collections

De contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione. Libri III / translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright.

Syphilis: or, a poetical history of the French disease / Written in Latin ... And now attempted in English by N. Tate. [With life of Fracastorius].

The maidens blush: or, Ioseph : mirror of modesty, map of pietie, maze of destinie, or rather diuine prouidence. From the Latin of Fracastorius, translated; & dedicated to the high-hopefull Charles, Prince of Wales. By Iosuah Syluester.

Hieronymus Fracastor's syphilis : from the original Latin.

Della sifilide ovvero del morbo gallico ... libri III / Volgarizzati da Vincenzo Benini. Con annotazioni.

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