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Achillini, Alessandro

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Alessandro Achillini (1463–1512) was a Bolognese philosopher and physician; he entertained a moderate form of Averroism, authored treatises on Aristotelian natural philosophy and commentaries, and also wrote a manual on physiognomics and chiromancy.

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    Leen Spruit

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Spruit, L. (2016). Achillini, Alessandro. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_706-1

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