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Tommaso del Garbo or Thomas de Garbo (c.1305, in Florence – 1370, in Florence) was a professor of medicine in
Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...
and
Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. He was the son of the physician
Dino del Garbo Dino di maestro B(u)ono del Garbo da Firenze (c.1280, Florence - 30 September 1327, Florence) was an Italian medieval physician and philosopher. He was also known as ''Dino da Firenze, Aldobrandino'' and in Latin as ''Dinus Florentinus''. He studi ...
and a friend of the poet
Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...
. It is said that the physician
Pietro da Tossignano Pietro da Tossignano also known as Pietro Curialti (c.1350 – 8 April 1407) was a professor of medicine in Perugia and Bologna. He was born near Imola, and may have studied in both Bologna and Padua. At the University of Bologna, he is said t ...
studied under Garbo at the University of Bologna.Treccani Encyclopedia
entry on Pietro Curialti by Augusto De Ferrari - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 31 (1985).


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*Consilio di Tommaso del Garbo Fiorentino contro la Pestilentia, in: M. Ficino, ''Contra alla peste'', Firenze, 1576


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* * * * Physicians from Florence 14th-century Italian physicians 1305 births 1370 deaths {{Italy-scientist-stub