Urso of Calabria

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Urso of Calabria[1] (died 1225) was an Italian scholastic philosopher, and significant author of medical works in the school of Salerno. He has been thought the leading figure of the school[2], and its most important theoretician and Aristotelian[3]. He had a European reputation[4].

[edit] Works

  • Anatomia
  • Compendium de urinis
  • De commixtionibus elementorum
  • Glossulae
  • De effectibus medicinarum
  • De effectibus qualitatum
  • De criticis diebus
  • De pulsibus
  • De saporibus et numero eorundem
  • Aphorismi[5]

[edit] Reference

  • Wolfgang Stürner, Urso von Salerno, De commixtionibus elementorum libellus (1976)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Urso of Salerno, Ursus Salernitanus, Urso di Calabria.
  2. ^ Brian Lawns, The Salernitan Questions. An Introduction to the History of Medieval and Renaissance Problem Literature (1963), Introduction.
  3. ^ Walter Berschin - 3. Amalfi, Salerno, Benevento, Monte Cassino
  4. ^ Donald Matthew, The Norman Kingdom of Sicily (1992), p. 117.
  5. ^ [1]; see also [2] under Urso Salernitanus.