biography
pronunciation:
[raydee]
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| lived:
| (1626–97)
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| biography:
| Physician and poet, born in Arezzo, NC Italy. He studied at Florence and Pisa, and became physician to the dukes of Tuscany. He wrote a book on animal parasites, and proved by a series of experiments that maggots cannot form spontaneously on meat that has been covered. As a poet, his chief work is Bacco in Toscana (1685, Bacchus in Tuscany). |
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