Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471-

LC control no.	n 88038927
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Alessio, approximately 1471- Alessio, of Piedmont, approximately 1471- Alessio, Piemontese, b. ca. 1471 Alexis, of Piedmont, approximately 1471- Alexis, Pedemontanus, approximately 1471- Alexis, Pedemontensis, approximately 1471- Piedmont, Alexis of, approximately 1471- Piemontese, Alessio, approximately 1471-
See also	Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Birth date	1471~
Special note	Frequently identified as the pseudonym under which Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565 wrote De Secreti del R. D. Alessio Piemontese, 1555; however there is some argument that they were not the same.
Found in	Wecker, J.J. Les secrets et merveilles de nature, 1614 (name not given) Ferguson, J. "Secrets of Alexis." Proc. Royal Society Med., Sect. Hist. Med., 1931: v. 24, p. 225-246 (Alexis, or Alessio, of Piedmont; assuming Alessio to have been a real person, was b. ca. 1473; gives important dates of his life in preface to Secreti, 1555) Bonino, G.G. Biogr. med. Piemontese, 1824-25: v. 1, p. 221 (Alessio Piemontese, Alexis Pedemontanus, Pedemontensis; Alessio and Girolamo Ruscelli the same person) Partington, Hist. of chemistry,: v. 2 p. 28-29 (Alexis of Piedmont, a cleric, born about 1471, wrote a collection of secrets said to have been first published in Venice in 1555; preface by Sansovino in Girolamo Ruscelli's Secreti nuovi, 1567, says the book was given by Ruscelli to the press under the name Donno Alessio of Piedmont, but Ruscelli and Alessio not the same person) Ferguson, J. Bib. chemica, 1906: v. 1, p. 22 (Alessio; considered by some a pseud. for Girolamo Ruscelli, but no evidence for this association) Eamon, W. "The accademia segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli: A sixteenth-century Italian scientific society" Isis, 75:2 (June 1984), pp. 327-342: p. 328-332 (In the proem to his Secreti nouvi, 1567, Ruscelli claims to have published part of his academy's findings in the Secreti of "Alexis of Piedmont" [in 1555])