Simone Simoni (1532,

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- 1602,

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) was an Italian philosopher and physician. After graduating in medicine from the

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, Simoni moved to

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, where he became professor of philosophy and engaged in controversy with

Jakob Schegk Jakob Schegk (also known as ''Jakob Degen'', ''Johann Jacob Brucker Schegk'', ''Jakob Schegk the elder'', ''Schegkius'', and ''Scheckius''; 6 June 1511 – 9 May 1587) was a polymath German Aristotelianism, Aristotelian philosopher and academic ph ...

. Expelled by the city for his heretical views, he moved to Paris and subsequently to Leipzig (where he was accused of

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in 1575) and Heidelberg (where he was forced to leave in 1579). In 1581, he became court physician to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague; there were unconfirmed rumours that he had converted to Catholicism. Simoni moved on to Poland to become court physician to Stephen Báthory. When the King died in 1586, Simoni was accused of having prescribed the wrong treatment and, after a bitter dispute, his rival Nicholas Buccella was appointed personal physician to the new king Sigismund III Vasa. SImoni moved to Moravia, where he spent the rest of his life. Simoni wrote a commentary on Aristotle's '' De Sensu''. He gave a notably crisp formulation to the principle that physicians should undergo preliminary preparation in Aristotelian natural philosophy: ''Ubi desinit physicus, ibi medicus incipit'' he physician starts where the natural philosopher leaves offCharles B. Schmitt, 'Aristotle among the physicians', in Andrew Wear et al., eds., ''The Medical renaissance of the sixteenth century'', Cambridge University Press, 1985, p.12

Works

*''Artificiosa curandae pestis methodus'', 1576

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Simoni, Simone (1532-1602)
at the ''Dizionario del pensiero cristiano alternativo'' 1532 births 1602 deaths 16th-century Italian physicians People from Lucca 16th-century Italian philosophers Italian philosophers {{italy-philosopher-stub