(1463-1512)
Italian physician, anatomist, and philosopher, a moderate follower of the "Averroistic" interpretation of Aristotle that dominated philosophical teaching in 15th-century Italy. His philosophy reflects the influence of the English scholastic philosopher William of Ockham. Educated at the University of Bologna, Achillini taught logic, natural philosophy, and medicine there and at Padua. He was an early practitioner of dissection of the human body. His chief medical works were Humani corporis anatomía / Anatomy of the Human Body and the posthumous Annotationen anatomicae / Notes on Anatomy (1520).
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance. Charles G. Nauert. 2004.