Ignazio (Ignace) Cardini (December 1566 - 1602) was a
Corsican medical doctor, naturalist and
humanist
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of
Italian
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descent, born in
Bastia,
Corsica
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.
He wrote a scientific work called “''Istoriae Naturales Corsice Insulae''”, in which he records the
mineralogy
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and
flora
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E ...
on
Corsica
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. 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
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Lucca is known as one o ...
,
Italy
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where he died.
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Italian Renaissance humanists
16th-century Italian physicians
People from Bastia
1602 deaths
1566 births
16th-century Genoese people