(ANSA) – SIENA, 04 NOV – A rare volume of 16th century anatomy will open its pages on Monday 8 November at 5 pm at the Accademia dei Fisiocritici with the initiative ‘Publishing, Art, Anatomy: the De humani corporis fabrica by Vesalius and van Calcar in the rare edition of 1555 owned by the Accademia dei Fisiocritici ‘. It is, it is explained in a note, a fundamental treatise on the human body by the Belgian Andreas van Wesel known in Italy as Andrea Vesalius, considered the father of modern anatomy.
The volume, which will be exhibited in the main hall, is enriched with initials and engravings by Johannes Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian.
An event organized by the Sienese Academy with the ‘Leonetto Comparini’ Anatomical Museum of the University of Siena and the Tuscan Bibliographic Society. After the greeting of the president of the Fisiocritici Giuseppe Manganelli, the superintendent of the Academy Library Marta Luciana Giovannoli will talk about the characteristics of the edition of the work and in particular of the copy owned, but also of the publishing of the time including that of Siena. What was human anatomy in the Renaissance, the historical context and the medical-anatomical significance of the volume will be discussed by Giandomenico Passavanti, urologist at the Ospedale della Misericordia in Grosseto while Stefano Ricci Cortili, scientific designer and anthropologist of the Department of Physical Sciences, of the Earth and of the Environment of the University of Siena will make an excursus from the tables of the ‘De humani corporis fabrica’ to modern scientific-anatomical illustration up to diagnostic imaging.
Margherita Aglianò, director of the Anatomical Museum and professor of Human Anatomy at the Department of Medical, Surgical and Neuroscience Sciences of the University of Siena, chairs and coordinates the round table. (HANDLE).
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