# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michele-mercati
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:44.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michele-mercati"
name: "Michele Mercati"
slug: "michele-mercati"
description: "Michele Mercati was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII. He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones."
tagline: "Italian polyhistor (1541-1593)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_Michael_Mercatus_Michael_Mercatus_Clementis_VIII_Miniatensis_Archiater_(titel_op_object)%2C_RP-P-1909-5666.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1541-04-08"
deathDate: "1593-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.075594666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Микеле Меркати"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميكيلي مركاتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati"
    title: "Michele Mercati"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363975"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump