... Aldrovandi met his destiny . Aldrovandi's life , molded by the hidden affinities that his name revealed , recapitulated the Homeric epic . The Aldrovandi family seemed to have had a special connection to Homer . Aldrovandi's father ...
... Aldrovandi repeatedly copying out the Hebrew alphabet , as a beginning student might.74 Given the large number of ... father , ” Aldrovandi writes , “ you could see one for yourself if you were able to buy it with money . Amatus ...
... Aldrovandi by the mar- chioness herself , when on a trip to Bologna . Count Aldrovandi then ordered an artist to draw a picture of the entire Gonzales family : the forty - year - old father , the twenty - year - old son , and the two ...
... Aldrovandi of Bologna ( fig . 4.2 ) , " the preeminent naturalist in Late Renaissance Italy . ” An immensely learned man , Aldrovandi ( 1522-1605 ) stud- ied philosophy , law , mathematics , medicine , and natural his- tory . His life ...
... Aldrovandi's scientific illustrations. However, we do have examples of Veronica Fontana, a later Bolognese ... father, the mannerist artist Prospero Fontana, about his Discorso. The archive that contained the letters exchanged ...
... Aldrovandi . He was a man of VOL . XV . - 31 decent character , and had the ... Father Ravali , a Cordelier , and one of the leading men of his order , on ... Aldrovandi at the rota . ( The rota was the opening in the wall at ...
... Aldrovandi ( 1522- 1605 ) is often belittled as " just another Gesner , except that he did not know when to stop " ( 1990 : 313 ) . But the point for Aldrovandi and his disciples was that one could not stop with less than a complete ...
... priest , " heresy ! But you tremble not , your cheek does not turn pale with horror . " " No , I am calm ; proceed . " " The Count Aldrovandi , your father , whose name you have heard for the first time , was the younger son of a ...
... father, Count Teseo Aldrovandi, was a lawyer who served as secretary of the senate of Bologna), Aldrovandi studied in Padua, Pisa, and Bologna. After earning degrees in medicine and philosophy in 1553, Aldrovandi taught logic and ...
... father of natural history', as Linnaeus later described Aldrovandi. Preceding the French entomologist JeanHenri Fabre by 300 years, Aldrovandi described and illustrated what is clearly the subterranean nest of a dung beetle, which he ...