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Mondino de Luzzi
Italian physician and anatomist (c.1270–1326)
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Mondino de Luzzi, "Lesson in Anatomy", originally published in Anathomia corporis humani, 1493. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine | |
| Born | ca.Mondino de luzzi biography of william1270 AD |
| Died | 1326 AD |
| Occupation(s) | Anatomist, physician, professor |
Mondino de Luzzi, or de Liuzzi or de Lucci,[2] (c. 1270 – 1326), also known as Mundinus, was an Italian physician, anatomist and professor of surgery, who lived and worked in Bologna.
He is often credited as the restorer of anatomy because he made seminal contributions to the field by reintroducing the practice of public dissection of human cadavers and writing the first modern anatomical text.
Life
He was born around 1270 into the prominent Florentine de Luzzi family with loyalties to the Ghibellines and inscribed to the Società dei Toschi, a medieval institution of Bologna for people from Tuscany.
His father, Nerino, and gran