Matheolus Perusinus (Mattheolus de Perusio, Mattiolo Mattioli, Matthiolus de Matthiolis, Matthiolus de Matthiolis) (died 1480) was a professor of
philosophy and
medicine
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.
He was a native of
Perugia
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The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and pa ...
(hence his name), and died at
Padua
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.
He was the
tutor
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of
Hartmann Schedel and the author of a work on human
memory
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(''Tractatus Artis Memorativæ'').
References
External links
Mattioli, Mattiolo
15th-century Italian physicians
People from Perugia
1480 deaths
Italian Renaissance humanists
Year of birth unknown
15th-century Italian writers
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