Berengario da Carpi

Citation
Ng. De Santo et al., Berengario da Carpi, AM J NEPHR, 19(2), 1999, pp. 199-212
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY
ISSN journal
02508095 → ACNP
Volume
19
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
199 - 212
Database
ISI
SICI code
0250-8095(199903/04)19:2<199:BDC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Berengario da Carpi was magister of anatomy and surgery at the University o f Bologna from 1502 to 1527. Eustachio and Falloppia defined him as 'the re staurator of anatomy'. He was a great surgeon, anatomist and physician of i llustrious patients including Lorenzo II dei Medici, Giovanni dalle Bande N ere, Galeazzo Pallavicini, Cardinal Colonna, and Alessandro Soderini. He ha d strong links to the intellectuals of his time (Forni, Bonamici, Manuzio, Pomponazzi) as well as with the Medici family. He was respected by the Pope s Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII. His main contributions are the Isogogae Breves, De Fractura calvae sive cranei, and the illustrated Commentaria on the Anatomy of Mondino de Liucci, a textbook utilized for more than 200 ye ars, which Berengario aimed to restore to its initial text, The Commentaria constitutes the material for the last part of this paper which concludes w ith a personal translation of some passages on 'The kidney', where the auth or gives poignant examples of experimental ingenuity.