Rome and Its Province

Important places related to the history of medicine and other health-related subjects in Rome and its Province, Italy. These places are also visible on this Google Map.

Rome

• Adalberto Pazzini’s home

• Adelaide Leonori’s tomb

• Alessio Cioffi De Alessi’s tomb in the church of Santa Maria in Publicolis

• Altobello d’Ense’s tomb in the basilica of San Sebastiano fuori le mura

• Andrea Bacci’s tomb (disappeared)

• Angelo Celli and Anna Fraentzel’s home

• Anna Fraentzel Celli’s last residence

• Antica Farmacia Pesci with:
  • Ancient Mortars
  • Balsamo Innocenziano

• Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala with the Theriaca’s vase

• Antimalarial action memorial tablet

• Antimalarial station at Castel di Decima

• Antimalarial station “Casale della Cervelletta”

• Antonio Cepparelli’s bust

• Antonio Coppola’s bust

• Arcispedale del SS. Salvatore

• Asclepius’ monument in the garden of the Istituto Villa Flaminia

• Attilio Ascarelli’s memorial tablet in the Fosse Ardeatine Memorial

• Bartolomeo Eustachi’s bust in the Pincian Hill

• Basilica of Sant’Agostino with:
  • Giacomo Baldini’s tombstone
  • Giovanni Battista Bomba’s tombstone

• Basilica of Santo Stefano Rotondo on the Celian hill

• Baths of Caracalla

• Baths of Diocletian with Ex-votos from the old Temple of Asclepius

• Camillus de Lellis’ body in the church of St.Mary Magdalen

• Camillus de Lellis’ statue (1)

• Camillus de Lellis’ statue (2)

• Castel Sant’Angelo

• Centro Medico Psico Pedagogico

• Cesare Frugoni’s home in Rome

• Church of San Lazzaro dei Lebbrosi

• Clinica Quisisana

• Corrado Tommasi Crudeli’s bust copy

• Corrado Tommasi Crudeli’s memorial tablet

• Corrado Tommasi Crudeli’s original bust

• Dorotea da Vercelli’s tombstone in the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

• Enrico Fermi’s birthplace

• Enrico Fermi’s memorial tablet

• Ex-Sanatorium Marchiafava

• Federico Cesi’s birthplace

• First Italian public school for deaf-mutes

• Francesco Ginnasi’s funeral monument in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

• Francesco Puccinotti’s bust in the Pincian Hill

• Gabriel Fonseca’s bust

• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini) with:
  • “Saint Jerome with glasses”, by Lionello Spada (c. 1611)
  • “St. Luke Healing the Dropsical Child”, by Giovanni Lanfranco (c. 1620)

• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna with:
  • Edward Jenner statue by Giulio Monteverde
  • Guido Baccelli’s bronze bust
  • “Nosocomio” (1895) by Silvio Rotta

• Giorgio Baglivi’s tomb

• Giorgio Festa’s house

• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli funereal monument

• Giovanni Battista Grassi’s bust in the Pincian Hill

• Giovanni Bollea’s house

• Giovanni Lanza’s memorial tablet

• Giovanni Maria Lancisi’s bust in the Pincian Hill

• Giulio Cesare Vanini’s medallion

• Giuseppe De Matthaeis’ tomb

• Giuseppe Sisco’s tomb

• Guido Baccelli’s home

• Guido Baccelli’s monument

• Hall of Medicine and Pharmacy, in the “Museo della Civiltà Romana”

• Hospital and Church of San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi

• Hospital San Carlo di Nancy

• Istituti Fisioterapici Ospedalieri

• Istituto Carlo Forlanini with the Museo Anatomico Eugenio Morelli

• Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata

• Istituto di Igiene G. Sanarelli with:
  • Angelo Celli’s bust
  • Corrado Tommasi Crudeli’s memorial tablet
  • Corrado Tommasi Crudeli’s original bust
  • Dante De Blasi’s bronze head
  • Giuseppe Sanarelli’s bronze bust

• Istituto di Igiene Sperimentale

• Istituto Mendel with:
  • “Nicola Pende and Disciples” (1938) by Roberto Fantuzzi

• Istituto Nazionale Malattie Infettive – Ospedale Spallanzani with related items
  • Alexander Fleming memorial tablet
  • “Lessons from the past, challenges for the future”
  • Tommaso Pontano’s memorial tablet

• Istituto Ospedaliero Regina Elena

• Istituto di Neuropsichiatria Infantile

• Istituto di Storia della Medicina with the Museo di Storia della Medicina

• Istituto Mendel

• Istituto Superiore di Odontoiatria “George Eastman” with George Eastman’s bust

• Istituto Superiore di Sanità with related items
  • Alexander Fleming’s bust
  • Atabrine
  • Domenico Marotta’s memorial tablet
  • ISS Electron Microscope
  • Old ISS penicillin plant
  • Museo dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  • Rockefeller Foundation’s memorial tablet

• Guido Baccelli Arbor Day’s memorial tablet

• Italian Ministry of Education with:
  • Guido Baccelli’s portrait (2)
  • Leonardo Bianchi’s portrait
  • Luigi Carlo Farini’s portrait (2)

• Jacob Moleschott bust

• Jean Bodier’s tomb in San Sebastiano fuori le mura‘s church

• John Keats and Axel Munthe home with John Keats’ deathbed

• Juan de Lugo’s tombstone

• La casina delle rose

• Ludovico Podocataro’s tomb in Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

• Lodovico Trevisan’s tomb in San Lorenzo in Damaso‘s church

• Luigi Luciani’s memorial tablet

• Luigi Maria Monti’s Statue

• Luigi Maria Monti’s Bust

• Luigi Maria Monti’s Painting

• Manlio Gelsomini’s memorial tablet

• Margaret Fuller’s home

• Maria Montessori’s first “Casa dei Bambini” with related items
  • Maria Montessori’s memorial tablet
  • Eduardo Talamo’s Memorial Tablet

• Maria Montessori’s funeral tablet

• Maria Montessori’s house

• Maria Montessori’s Istituto Medico-Pedagogico

• Mariano Santo’s tomb (disappeared)

• Maurizio Bufalini’s bust in the Pincian Hill

• Military Hospitaller Order of Malta’s Magistral Palace

• Museo Centrale del Risorgimento with:
  • Agostino Bertani’s bust
  • Garibaldi’s wounding memorabilia
  • Red Cross Volunteer Nurse’s uniform

• Museo di Storia della Medicina with related items
  • Adalberto Pazzini’s bronze bust
  • Anatomical theatre wooden model
  • Anti-headache crown
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope (replica)
  • Cerletti’s First Electroshock Apparatus
  • Fabrizi da Acquapendente’s Oplomochlion (reconstruction)
  • “Lezione di anatomia” by Adalberto Pazzini
  • Mondino de Liuzzi’s statue
  • Paracelsus bronze bust
  • Rhinoplasty bandage after Tagliacozzi (reconstruction)
  • The Child of Fidene

• Museum of Comparative Anatomy ”Battista Grassi” with:
  • Giovanni Battista Grassi’s documents
  • ‘Sala Grassi’

• Natale Saliceti’s tomb

• Nicola Pende’s home

• Old “Fabbrica di penicillina LEO”

• Old “Manicomio Provinciale Santa Maria della Pietà” with related items
  • Antonio Maria Valsalva’s bas-relief medallion
  • Area of the “Manicomio Provinciale Santa Maria della Pietà”
  • Augusto Giannelli’s bust
  • Museo Laboratorio della Mente
  • Vincenzo Chiarugi’s bas-relief medallion

• Old Rome’s slaughterhouse

• Orazio Lancellotti’s tomb

• Ospedale della Consolazione with:
  • Luigi Gonzaga’s plate

• Ospedale di San Giacomo degli Incurabili

• Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù

• Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù memorial tablet

• Ospedale Pediatrico “La Scarpetta”

• Ospedale San Camillo

• Ospedale San Giovanni Calibita – Fatebenefratelli
  • Pedro Soriano’s bust
  • Faustino Calvo’s bust
  • John of God’s statue

• Palazzo Altieri

• Palazzo Cardinal Cesi

• Paolo Zacchia’s tomb (disappeared)

• Pietro Luigi Valentini’s tomb in San Giovanni dei Fiorentini church

• Policlinico militare “Celio”

• Policlinico Umberto I with related items
  • “Aldo Castellani” by Spiro Judor (1936)
  • “Aldo Castellani with disciples”, by R.Fantuzzi (1935)
  • Aldo Turchetti’s bust
  • “Cesare Frugoni and disciples” (1936) by Roberto Fantuzzi
  • Cesare Frugoni’s bust
  • Clinica delle Malattie Nervose e Mentali with:
    • First use of Electroshock memorial tablet
    • Ezio Sciamanna’s bust
    • Giovanni Mingazzini’s bust
    • Sante De Sanctis’ bust
    • Ugo Cerletti’s memorial tablet
  • “Ernesto Pestalozza and disciples” (1934) by Roberto Fantuzzi
  • Ernesto Pestalozza’s bust
  • Francesco Durante’s monument
  • Guido Baccelli’s marble bust
  • Guido Baccelli’s memorial tablet
  • Guido Baccelli’s memorial tablet (2)
  • Guido Baccelli’s portrait
  • Guido Baccelli and Francesco Durante fresco
  • Joseph Lister bas-relief
  • Luigi Concetti’s monument
  • Luigi Condorelli’s bust
  • Paolo Gaifami’s bust
  • Pietro Valdoni’s bust
  • Pietro Valdoni’s hall
  • “Riccardo Dalla Vedova and disciples” (1938) by Roberto Fantuzzi
  • Riccardo Dalla Vedova’s bust
  • “Roberto Alessandri and disciples” by Roberto Fantuzzi
  • Roberto Alessandri’s bust
  • Surgical Clinic “Pietro Valdoni”
  • Vittorio Ascoli’s bust
  • Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen’s bas-relief

• Policlinico universitario Agostino Gemelli with related items
  • Agostino Gemelli’s portrait
  • John Paul II monument

• Protestant Cemetery (aka Cimitero Inglese or Cimitero Acattolico) with:
  • Axel Munthe’s memorial plaque
  • John Bell tomb
  • John Keats memorial tablet
  • John Keats tomb
  • Sarah Parker Remond’s memorial plaque

• Raffaele Paolucci’s birthplace

• Romolo Spezioli’s tomb (disappeared)

• Saints Cosmas and Damian’s Basilica

• San Carlo di Nancy’s Chapel

• San Gallicano Hospital with:
  • Anatomical Theatre in the ancient San Gallicano Hospital

• Santa Maria Maddalena Church

• Sant’Eustachio church with:
  • Clemente Bertoni’s funeral monument
  • Filippo Chiappini’s funeral monument

• “San Camillo de Lellis saves the sick in the hospital of the Holy Spirit” (1746) by Pierre Subleyras Hubert

• Saint Camillus de Lellis’ statue in Basilica Vaticana

• Saint Camillus de Lellis’ terracotta statue

• Santa Caterina da Siena church a Via Giulia with:
  • Lorenzo De Rossi’s funeral monument

• Santi Apostoli basilica with:
  • Ferdinando Eustachi’s funeral monument

• Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio basilica with:
  • Giuseppe Giuliani’s tombstone

• Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini church with:
  • Domenico Altimani’s tombstone
  • Pietro and Achille Lupi’s funeral monument

• Santo Stefano del Cacco church with:
  • Paolo De Celestini’s tombstone
  • Pietro (Pie) De Vago’s tombstone

• Sarah Parker Remond’s home

• Scuola Convitto Professionale per Infermiere Religiose

• Temple of Asclepius in Villa Borghese

• The Monumental Complex of Santo Spirito in Saxia with related items
  • Accademia di Storia dell’Arte Sanitaria with:
    • Antonio Parrozzani’s portrait
    • Cesare Magati’s bust (copy)
    • Cesare Serono’s Bust
    • Cinchona bark’s wooden chest
    • Dorotea da Vercelli’s tombstone (replica)
    • Giovanni Maria Lancisi’s academic chair
    • “Giuseppe Sisco” by Gaspare Landi
    • Guglielmo Bilancioni’s bust
    • Museo Storico Nazionale dell’Arte Sanitaria
    • Pietro Capparoni’s memorial tablet
  • Accademia Lancisiana with:
    • Accademia Lancisiana’s library
    • Giovanni Maria Lancisi’s bust
  • Agostina Pietrantoni’s murder memorial tablet
  • Anatomy lesson bas-relief
  • Antonio Biagi’s memorial plaque
  • Antonio Pacchioni’s bust
  • Biblioteca Lancisiana
  • Corsia Sistina
  • Guglielmo Riva’s bust
  • Guido Baccelli’s bust
  • Pietro Lupi’s bust
  • Santo Spirito in Sassia church with:
    • Agostina Pietrantoni’s memorial tablet
    • Giovanni Maria Lancisi’s tomb
    • Pietro Giavina’s tombstone
  • Vincenzo Sartori’s bust

• The “Personification of Medicine” fresco in the library of the Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio all’Aventino

• The Sick Mailbox in San Salvatore alle Coppelle

• Thomas Cadimustus’s tomb (disappeared)

• Tiber Island with related items
  • Old Temple of Asclepius with Asclepius Caduceus and Snake
  • Ospedale San Giovanni Calibita – Fatebenefratelli
  • San Bartolomeo all’Isola’s Basilica with St. Bartholomew’s marble well

• Two plague victim girls’ tombstone in the church of Santa Maria della Pace

• Unità operativa della Croce Rossa Italiana

• Valentino Onorati’s funeral tablet in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere

• Vatican Museums with:
  • Asclepius’ statue

• Verano Cemetery with:
  • Andrea Amici’s tomb
  • Anna Zanon’s tomb
  • Arnaldo Angelucci’s tomb
  • Benedetto Viale Prelà’s tomb
  • Dorothy Snell’s tomb
  • Giorgio Festa’s tomb
  • Guido Baccelli’s tomb
  • Maria Fernanda Massardo’s tomb
  • Nicola Pende’s tomb
  • Pietro Valdoni’s tomb
  • Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi’s tomb
  • Roberto Alessandri’s tomb
  • Teresa Rovero’s tomb
  • Teresita Sandeschi Scelba’s tomb

Albano Laziale

• Albano cemetery – also known as Cholera cemetery

• Guido Farina’s memorial tablet

• Guido Farina’s tomb

• Hospital of San Giuseppe

Ardea

• “Christiaan Barnard” (1969) by Giacomo Manzù in the House-Museum Giacomo Manzù

Ariccia

• Ospedale “Luigi Spolverini”

• Palazzo Chigi’s old pharmacy

Campagnano di Roma

• Carlo Maggiorani’s birthplace

• Carlo Maggiorani’s tomb

Canale Monterano

• Baths of Stigliano

Fiumicino

• Giovanni Battista Grassi’s home and office

• Giovanni Battista Grassi’s memorial tablet

• Giovanni Battista Grassi’s tomb

• Marcus Ulpius Amerimnus and Scribonia Attice’s sepulcher

Frascati

• Angelo Celli and Anna Fraentzel’s tomb

• Villa Rasponi

Monterotondo

• Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena

• Ospedale Santissimo Gonfalone

San Vito Romano

• Ospedale “Guido Baccelli”

Tivoli

• Aquae Albulae (Tivoli)

• San Giovanni Evangelista’s Hospital with:
  • Antonio Parrozzani’s memorial tablet

Velletri

• Pio Blasi’s tomb in the Monumental Cemetery

 

Bibliography

– G.Adanti, Le divinità della salute nell’antica Roma, Gazzetta Farmaceutica, Milano 1966, pp. 240
– J.Beck-Friis, The Protestant Cemetery in Rome. The Cemetery of Artists and Poets, Allhems Förlag, Malmö (Sweden) 2008, pp.38
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– L.Galieti, Gli antichi ospedali della Diocesi di Albano. Albano, Civita Lavinia, Genzano, Marino, Nemi, Nettuno, con cenni sugli ospedali medioevali di Velletri e curiosità sull’assistenza sanitaria nei Castelli Romani e nell’Agro Romano, Aracne, Roma 2016, pp. 101
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