10 Facts About Bartolomeo Maranta

Bartolomeo Maranta, Bartholomaeus Marantha was an Italian physician, botanist, and literary theorist.

Bartolomeo Maranta's name was given to a street in Rome.

Bartolomeo Maranta was born in Venosa, in 1500 or 1514, to the lawyer and academic Roberto Bartolomeo Maranta, originally from Venosa, and Beatrice Monna, a noblewoman from Molfetta.

Bartolomeo Maranta was a friend of the naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi, and twenty-two letters from their correspondence survive.

Bartolomeo Maranta was both the friend and rival of Pietro Andrea Mattioli.

Bartolomeo Maranta was physician to the Duke of Mantua and later to Cardinal Branda Castiglioni.

Bartolomeo Maranta combined his interests in medicine and botany in Methodi cognoscendorum simplicium, in which he organized the subject of botanical pharmacology by nomenclature, species identification, and medicinal properties.

Bartolomeo Maranta maintained that theriac had been tested on criminals condemned to death and was proven in antiquity to be infallible.

One of Bartolomeo Maranta's interests is the effects of maraviglia, or "the marvelous," on plot.

Bartolomeo Maranta believed that poets were more powerful teachers than philosophers because their discourse is made vivid, rather than abstract, by moving the passions and demonstrating behavior.