Ignace Cardini
Ignazio (Ignace) Cardini (December 1566 - 1602) was a Corsican people, Corsican medical doctor, naturalist and Renaissance humanism, humanist of Italian people, Italian descent, born in Bastia, Corsica. He wrote a scientific work called “''Istoriae Naturales Corsice Insulae''”, in which he records the mineralogy and flora on Corsica. An outspoken critic of the Corsican clergy, most of the copies of his book were burned by local monks. He was eventually exiled to Lucca, Italy where he died. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cardini, Ignazio Italian Renaissance humanists 16th-century Italian physicians People from Bastia 1602 deaths 1566 births 16th-century Genoese people ...
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Corsican People
The Corsicans ( Corsican, Italian and Ligurian: ''Corsi''; French: ''Corses'') are a Romance ethnic group. They are native to Corsica, a Mediterranean island and a territorial collectivity of France. Origin The island was populated since the Mesolithic (''Dame de Bonifacio'') and the Neolithic by people who came from the Italian peninsula, especially the modern regions of Tuscany and Liguria. An important megalithic tradition developed locally since the 4th millennium BC. Reached, like Sardinia, by Polada culture influences in the Early Bronze Age, in the 2nd millennium BC Corsica, the southern part in particular, saw the rise of the Torrean civilization, strongly linked to the Nuragic civilization. The modern Corsicans are named after an ancient people known by the Romans as '' Corsi''. The ''Corsi'', who gave their name to the island, actually originated from the Northeastern part of Nuragic Sardinia (Gallura). According to Ptolemy, the Corsi were formed by a composite ...
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