Francesco Pona
Italian doctor, philosopher and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francesco Pona was an Italian medical doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays. Biography A Veronese medical doctor and member of many academies, Pona was a prolific writer, producing medical and scientific texts, historiography, literary translation, drama, lyric poetry, prose romances, and tales. A follower of Cesare Cremonini, a heterodox Aristotelian professor at Padua, Pona was a leading member of the influential Accademia degli Incogniti - a society of Venetian intellectuals famous for the libertine and anti-clerical tendencies of many of its members. By the mid 1630s, Pona converted to a strict Catholicism and abjured his juvenile production. He died in Verona on 2 October 1655.
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