Alessandro Achillini

Alessandro Achillini ( pron. ak ) (* October 20, 1463 in Bologna, † August 2, 1512 ibid ) was a scholastic philosopher and physician from Italy.

Achilini taught in his native city of Bologna Medicine, where he distinguished himself as an anatomist, and also philosophy. In Padua, where he taught philosophy, he joined all the way to the Averroism. However, unlike Averroes he denied the doctrine of the unity of the intellect.

Among his writings on philosophy, Opera omnia which are initially recorded in 1508 in Venice in a single voluminous Tome and which were reprinted in 1545 and 1568 with noteworthy comments, is the most important De intelligentiis in five books. In some medical writings he is considered the discoverer of the malleus and incus.

Alessandro Achillini was the older brother of Giovanni Filoteo Achillini and the great-uncle of Claudio Achillini.

Works (selection)

  • Corporis humani Anatomia (Venice, 1516-1524 )
  • Anatomicae Annotationes (Bologna, 1520)
  • University teachers (Padua)
  • Philosopher of the Middle Ages
  • Person (Bologna)
  • Born in 1463
  • Died in 1512
  • Man
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