Fracastoro, Girolamo (Fracas`toro, Girolamo) , a learned physician and poet, born at Verona; became professor of Dialectic at Padua in his twentieth year; subsequently practised as a physician, but eventually gave himself up to literature (1483‒1553).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Fra Diavolo * Fragonard, Jean Honoré