 Paolo Riccio

Paolo Riccio (1480 - 1541)  was a German Jewish convert to Christianity in the first half of the sixteenth century.He became professor of philosophy in the University of Pavia; subsequently he was physician to Emperor Maximilian I.

Riccio was inclined to astrology and the Cabala, and had a controversy with Johann Eck about the existence of life on the stellar bodies.