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Fortunio Affaitati

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Fortunio Affaitati (1510–1550) was an Italian physicist and astrologer.

He was born to the aristocratic Affaitati family in Cremona, and dedicated to Pope Paul III a series of essays titled Phisicae ac astronomicae considerationes (1549). He retired to live in England.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 1, by Francesco Predari, Tipografia Guigoni, Milan (1865); page 34.
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  • Bertelli, Sergio (1960). "AFFAITATI, Fortunio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 1: Aaron–Albertucci (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.