FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, reissue of the title page with the colophon which preserves the signature "Vidua Balthazaris Arnolleti." Rodrigues, who adopted the humanistic name Amatus Lusitanus, was a Spanish-Jewish physicist and surgeon. He was Mattioli's great rival as editor and commentator of Dioscorides and was the victim of his wrath: "Through charges leveled by Mattioli, Amatus (whose name Mattioli persisted in altering to Amathus, meaning simpleton) was hunted from place to place by the Inquisition. He finally obtained refuge in the Jewish colony in Salonica, but lost his livelihood, his reputation, and the manuscript of the translation of Avicenna that he had nearly completed "Anderson, An illustrated history of the herbals. < br>