a celebrated physician of Italy, was born at Rappolte, in the state of Genoa, 1577. He came, it seems, into the world, before his mother had completed the seventh month of her pregnancy; but his father, being an ingenious physician, wrapped him up in cotton, and nurtured him so, that he lived to be 77 years of age. He was trained with great care, and became a very distinguished man in his profession; and was the author of a great number of works: his book De Monstris everybody must have heard of. He was professor of philosophy and physic at Padua, where he died in 1655.