Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Italian physician and naturalist, best known for his commentary on Dioscorides' De Materia Medica.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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On the Work of the Sixth Day
— Cited in Dioscorides commentary for personally testing that salamanders are consumed by fire
"Mattioli says he himself experienced this, having thrown many salamanders into fire, which were quickly consumed."