Padua and its Province

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

Padua

• Basilica of St Anthony with:
  • Domenico Guglielmini’s memorial tablet
  • Gabriele Falloppia’s tomb
  • Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla’s memorial tablet
  • Johann Vesling funereal monument
  • Johann Georg Wirsung’s cenotaph
  • Lorenzo Fabris’ funeral tablet
  • Marchetti Family funeral monument

• Bernardino Ramazzini’s tomb
• Francesco Marzolo’s bust
• Francesco Marzolo’s last home
• Giampaolo Vlacovich home
• Giovanni Battista Da Monte’s lunette (his home or private clinic?)

• Giovanni Battista Morgagni’s home

• Giovanni Battista Morgagni’s tomb in the Church of San Massimo

• Johann Georg Wirsung’s home

• Morgagni Amphitheatre with Giovanni Cagnetto’s bust

• Ospedale di San Francesco Grande
  • Museo di Storia della Medicina (MUSME)
    • Sala A – former Ospedale di San Francesco Grande’s history
    • Sala B – the Paduan University and the Scientific Revolution of XVI Century
    • Sala C – Anatomy – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How is the Human Body made?”
    • Sala D – Physiology – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How does the Human Body work?”
    • Sala E – Pathology – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How does the Human body break down?”
    • Sala F – Therapy – the answers of Medicine to the question: “How do you cure the human body?”
    • Teatro Anatomico Vesaliano
    • Sala esposizioni tematiche

• Palazzo del Bo’ with:
  • Achille De Giovanni’s portrait
  • Anatomical Theatre with Girolamo Fabrizi d’Acquapendente’s bust
  • Gabriele Falloppia’s coat of arms
  • Galileo Galilei’s fifth lumbar vertebra
  • Johann Georg Wirsung’s portrait
  • Professors’ skulls in the Hall of Medicine
  • Santorio weighing chair (reconstruction)
  • Thomas Bartholin’s portrait
  • Thomas Linacre’s portrait
  • William Harvey’s portrait
  • William Harvey’s coat of arms

• Prato della Valle with:
  • Michele Savonarola’s monument
  • Peter of Abano’s monument
  • Pietro Danieletti’s monument with a bust of Morgagni

• Saint Luke’s tomb in the Basilica of Santa Giustina

• Vincenzo Pinali’s home

Abano Terme

• Montirone Spring with
  • Hygieia’s monument
• Peter of Abano’s statue

Bibliography

– AA.VV., Les siècles d’or de la médecine. Padoue XVe-XVIIIe siècles, Electa, Milano 1989

– P.Del Negro (ed.), The University of Padua. Eight Centuries of History, Signum, Padova 2003, pp. 295