Paolo Mascagni
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 Paolo Mascagni |
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| Born | January 25, 1755 Pomarance, Italy |
| Died | October 19, 1815 Chiusdino, Italy |
| Occupation | Anatomist |
| Parents | Aurelio Mascagni & Elizabeth Burroni |
Paolo Mascagni (January 25, 1755 – October 19, 1815) was an Italian physician.
He was born in Pomarance (in the Province of Pisa) to Aurelio Mascagni and Elizabeth Rivendell ', both belonging to the ancient families Chiusdino. He studied in Siena, where he had among his teachers Peter Tabarrini (for Anatomy) and graduated in philosophy and medicine in 1778.
In addition to a preference for medical studies, he was also interested in the natural sciences, as evidenced by several studies on youth Lagoni at Siena and Volterra. In the last year of university studies, he was appointed alternate assistant to Tabarrini and then after completion of studies, assistant in 1780. In 1796, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
In 1798 he became President of the Fisiocritici Academy in Siena. During the French occupation of Tuscany, he embraced the giacobina republican cause and was in prison for seven months.
Despite this, on October 22, 1801 the King of Etruria appointed Mascagni as professor of anatomy at University of Pisa. This forced him to take classes twice a week in Florence, at Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. During these years he studied mainly the lymphatic vessels and wrote as a result in 1787 the vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et Iconographia. Maria Louisa, Duchess of Lucca then instituted him as Professor at the University of Florence.
He died of pernicious fever during a stay at villa Castelletto in Chiusdino, (Siena), the place where Maria Louisa, Duchess of Lucca's family was originally from and where he spent much of his spare time.
Some decades after his death his statue was erected in the courtyard of the Uffizi.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
[edit] Posthumous Publications
- "Prodromo della grande anatomia" (1821)
- "Anatomicae universae iconae" (1823)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Paolo Mascagni", Fisiocritici Academy, 2006 [1]
- ^ Choulant, Ludwig, Mortimer, Frank, Fielding, Hudson G., Streeter, Edward C., "History and bibliography of anatomic illustration in its relation to anatomic science and the graphic arts", 1852 [2]
- ^ Knight, Charles, "Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge: Second supplement", 1858 [3]
- ^ Eimas, Richard, "The Great Anatomy of Paolo Mascagni", 1963
- ^ "Paolo Mascagni", The University of Iowa, 12 June 2006
- ^ Antommarchi, Francesco C., "Anatomical Prints of the Human Body with Natural Dimensions", 1826 [4]
- ^ Antommarchi, Francisco, "Prodromo della grande anatomia seconda opera pstuma di Paolo Mascagni, posta in ordine, e poblicata a spese di una Societa innominata da Francisco Antommarchi", 1819
- ^ Antommarchi, Francisco, "Tavole figurate di aalcume porti organiche del corpo umano degli animali e dei vegetablii, esposte nel prodromo della grande anatomia di Paolo Mascagni", 1819
- ^ Moodie, Roy L., "Anatomical Names with Biographical Sketches", 1917
