Ferrara, Italy/ferrara082
Previous | Home | NextThis is the plaque on the annex, which tells us that "In this building adjacent to the convent were the St. Dominic headquarters until 1567 [when the university moved] which held the faculties of medicine and the arts of the University of Ferrara, including the instructors Leoniceno (1428-1524), Manardo (1482-1536), Brasavola (1500-1555), Canani (1515 -1579), and Fallopio (1523-1562), with the high level teaching of a new methodology directed to the study of natural phenomena, the structure of the human body, virtues of medicinal herbs and symptoms of diseases, extending knowledge beyond dogma to the horizons of modern science and ahead of the affirmations of physics and astronomy." Two of these professors (Leoniceno and Manardo) are specifically mentioned in biographies of Paracelsus. Fallopio is the researcher who discovered the eponymous Fallopian tubes.
