Niccolò Leoniceno

Niccolò Leoniceno (* 1428 in Lonigo in Vicenza, † 1524 in Ferrara also: Nicolo Leoniceno, Nicolaus Leoninus, Nicolaus Leonicenus went of Vicenza, Nicolaus Leonicenus went Vicentinus, Nicolo Lonigo, Nicolò da da Vincenza Lonigo ) was an Italian physician, grammarian and humanist.

Leoniceno was the son of a doctor. He studied philosophy in his native Vicenza under Ognibene as Lonigo ( Omnibonus Leonicenus went ). Around 1453, he received his master's degree in Liberal Arts at the University of Padua, where he also received his doctorate degree in medicine. His teacher in Padua was Pietro Roccabonella Veneziano († 1491 ), a professor of medicine in Padua. He may have taught there for a while. 1464 he went to the University of Ferrara, where he first mathematics, philosophy, and ultimately taught medicine.

1490 he wrote to his colleagues in Florence, Angelo Poliziano ( Politianus ) criticized Ibn Sina and also discovered translation error in the Naturalis historia ( created 79, first printed in Venice in 1469 ), by Pliny the Elder.

He was a grammarian and a pioneer in the correct translation of Greek and Arabic medical texts into Latin, for example, of Galen and Hippocrates of Kos. As a grammarian, he wrote textbooks the " De octo partibus orationis " and the " Libellus de Arte metrica ". Both works are masterpieces and early incunabula of didactics. In the 15th century, the medical lectures were linked to the knowledge and interpretation of the ancient authors. Therefore, the theory was extended to both disciplines. In 1497 Leoniceno first described syphilis. For Fran Gaffurio he translated the Harmoniae of Ptolemy.

Then he was in Venice in 1508, 1509 active in Ferrara, in 1514 in Paris and 1519 in Pavia.