Abstract
Berengario da Carpi (Jacopo Barigazzi) was born around 1460 in the small Italian town of Carpi near Modena. Berengario's father, Faustino, was a reputable barber-surgeon who initiated his son early into the art of anatomy and surgery. After his graduation from the University of Bologna in 1489, Berengario rapidly acquired an enviable reputation as a physician and surgeon following the successful treatment of several dignitaries, including Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino who suffered a severe head injury in 1517. While professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Bologna, Berengario published in 1518 his De fractura cranei, a landmark work on cranio-cerebral surgery. Berengario's masterpiece, however, is undoubtedly his detailed Commentaria on the famous medieval anatomy treatise of Mondino de' Liuzzi (ca. 1270-1326) that he published in 1521. A shorter version entitled Isagogae Breves appeared a year later. Besides a facsimile of Mondino's work, Berengario's Commentaria contains a wealth of new information, including observations that challenged Galenic physiology. Galen taught that the rete mirabile-a vascular plexus believed to occur at the basis of the human brain-is the locus where the vital spirit is transforme...Continue Reading
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