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Renaissance life writing by Felix Platter, his father Thomas, and his half-brother Thomas

I almost skipped Catherine Nicholson's review of "Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance", but the picture was a painting of Felix Platter (1536-1614)—and I live 500 meters from Felix Platter-Spital. The reviewed book is a translation of part of a memoir the influential pathologist and ophthalmologist

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