Christopher Guarinonius or Cristoforo Guarinoni (died 1601) was an Italian physician and naturalist with connections to the courts of the

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and of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II. Guarinoni was born in

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and studied at the

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. Around the year 1600 he was connected to the imperial court in Prague, where his relatives the father and son Bartholomew (1534–1616) and Hippolytus Guarinoni (1571-1654) were active in medicine, philosophy and alchemy. R.J.W. Evans, ''Rudolf II and His World'' (

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, 1997), pp. 203-204. He wrote three works on Aristotelian

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and

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, all of which were published posthumously in Frankfurt within a year of his death. * ''Disputatio de methodo doctrinarum ad mentem Aristotelis'' * ''Sententiarum Aristotelis de anima seu mente humana disputatio'' * ''Commentaria in primum librum Aristotelis De historia animalium''

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