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Arnaldus de Villanova
c.1240–1311 · Iberia (Valencia)Iberian
Description
Arnaldus de Villa Nova was a physician and a religious reformer.
Facts
| Born | c.1240, unknown |
| Died | c.1311, Genoa |
Life & work in brief
Summarised by section — one row per topic, for fast reading.
| Work / contribution | Significance |
|---|---|
| Biography | Arnaldus' place and date of birth are debated: some historians believe he was born in Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, a village near Montpellier; others are doubtful because there are also towns of the same name in Aragon such as Villanueva de Jiloca, in the Kingdom of Valencia, in Catalonia, in Languedoc and in Provence. |
| Writings | Arnaldus was also thought to be an alchemist: the door to his house in Montpellier, France, had carved depictions of a roaring lion and dragon biting its own tail (an Ouroboros), both alchemical symbols, and several renowned alchemists recognized him as an adept. |
Contribution to the celestial-alphabet tradition
Catalan physician-alchemist, royal counsellor and apocalyptic-sapiential astrologer — an Iberian link carrying the Alfonsine astrological corpus into the late-medical-alchemical tradition that feeds Paracelsus.
Lineage — influence tree
Where Arnaldus de Villanova sits in the magi lineage: who shaped this figure, and who this figure shaped in turn. Mage names link to their own ficha.