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PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI (1500-1577) Les commentaires de M.P. André Matthiolus, medecin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbéen, De la matiere medecinale : avec pluseiurs tables fort amples, les unes medecinales, les autres des mots & matieres traittées esdits commentaires ... / traduit de latin en françois. Chez Claude Prost 1642 1642 French edition [127], 605, [32] p. : ill., port. 34 cm.

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[Alternate title: Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis ... de materia medica. (French). Alternate title: Commentaires sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride De la matière médicinale. Traduits de latin en françois par Antoine Du Pinet et augmentez en plus de mille lieux à la dernière édition de l'autheur, tant de plusieurs remèdes, à diverses sortes de maladies, comme aussi des distillations, & de la cognoissance des simples.] Pietro Andrea Gregorio Mattioli (Matthiolus) (23 March 1501, Siena – 1577, Trento) was a doctor and naturalist born in Siena. He received his MD at the University of Padua in 1523, and subsequently practiced the profession in Siena, Rome, Trento and Gorizia, becoming personal doctor of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in Prague and Ambras Castle and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. Mattioli described the first case of cat allergy. A careful student of botany, he described 100 new plants and coordinated the medical botany of his time in his Discorsi ("Commentaries") on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides. In addition to identifying the plants originally described by Dioscorides, Mattioli added descriptions of some plants not in Dioscorides and not of any known medical use, thus marking a transition from the study of plants as a field of medicine to a study of interest in its own right. In addition, the woodcuts in Mattioli's work were of a high standard, allowing recognition of the plant even when the text was obscure. A noteworthy inclusion is an early variety of tomato, the first documented example of the vegetable being grown and eaten in Europe. The first edition of Mattioli's work appeared in 1544 in Italian. There were several later editions in Italian and translations into Latin (Venice, 1554), Czech, (Prague, 1562), German (Prague, 1563) and French, whose editions run between 1572-1655.

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