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Bernardino of Siena

1380 - 1444

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Bernardino of Siena, OFM (Bernardine; 8 September 1380 – 20 May 1444), was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics. His preaching, his book burnings, and his "bonfires of the vanities" established his reputation in his own lifetime; they were frequently directed against gambling, infanticide, sorcery/witchcraft, sodomy (chiefly among homosexual males), Jews, Romani "Gypsies", usury, and the like. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardino of Siena has received more than 353,478 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Bernardino of Siena is the 99th most popular physician (down from 93rd in 2019), the 830th most popular biography from Italy (up from 866th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Physician.

Bernardino of Siena was a Franciscan preacher who was famous for his preaching in the Italian city of Siena.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Bernardino of Siena ranks 99 out of 502Before him are Jang-geum, Corneille Heymans, Stanley Cohen, Ctesias, Otto Loewi, and Qa'a. After him are Elias Lönnrot, Oswald Avery, Alexandre Yersin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Frederick Chapman Robbins, and Ragnar Granit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1380, Bernardino of Siena ranks 6Before him are Thomas à Kempis, Ferdinand I of Aragon, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Pachacuti, and Poggio Bracciolini. After him are Prokop the Great, Yawar Waqaq, Mustafa Çelebi, Itzcoatl, Lidwina, and İsa Çelebi. Among people deceased in 1444, Bernardino of Siena ranks 4Before him are Władysław III of Poland, Robert Campin, and Leonardo Bruni. After him are Olivera Despina, Mark of Ephesus, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, Julian Cesarini, Joseph Albo, and Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bernardino of Siena ranks 830 out of 4,668Before him are Giambattista Basile (1566), Romano Prodi (1939), Aristoxenus (-360), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Phalaris (-700), and Louise of Orléans (1812). After him are Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351), Rosalia Lombardo (1918), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), Pietro Bembo (1470), and Maurizio Pollini (1942).

Among PHYSICIANS In Italy

Among physicians born in Italy, Bernardino of Siena ranks 7Before him are Florence Nightingale (1820), Cesare Lombroso (1835), Camillo Golgi (1843), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Francesco Redi (1626), and Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909). After him are Peter Damian (1007), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682), Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501), and Bernardino Ramazzini (1633).