Paolo Mascagni
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He was born in Pomarance
Pomarance
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(in the Province of Pisa
Province of Pisa
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) to Aurelio Mascagni and Elizabeth Rivendell ', both belonging to the ancient families Chiusdino. He studied in Siena
Siena
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, where he had among his teachers Peter Tabarrini (for Anatomy
Anatomy
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) and graduated in philosophy
Philosophy
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and medicine
Medicine
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in 1778.
In addition to a preference for medical studies, he was also interested in the natural sciences, as evidenced by several studies on youth Lagoni at Siena
Siena
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and Volterra
Volterra
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. In the last year of university studies, he was appointed alternate assistant to Tabarrini and then after completion of studies, assistant in 1780. In 1796, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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In 1798 he became President of the Fisiocritici Academy in Siena
Siena
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...
. During the French occupation of Tuscany, he embraced the giacobina republican cause and was in prison for seven months.
Despite this, on October 22, 1801 the King of Etruria appointed Mascagni as professor of anatomy at University of Pisa
University of Pisa
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. This forced him to take classes twice a week in Florence
Florence
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, at Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
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. During these years he studied mainly the lymphatic vessels and wrote as a result in 1787 the vasorum lymphaticorum corporis humani historia et Iconographia. Maria Louisa, Duchess of Lucca then instituted him as Professor at the University of Florence
University of Florence
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He died of pernicious fever during a stay at villa Castelletto in Chiusdino
Chiusdino
Chiusdino is a comune in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 km south of Florence and about 30 km southwest of Siena...
, (Siena
Siena
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...
), the place where Maria Louisa, Duchess of Lucca's family was originally from and where he spent much of his spare time.
Some decades after his death his statue was erected in the courtyard of the Uffizi
Uffizi
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Posthumous Publications
- "Prodromo della grande anatomia" (1821)
- "Anatomicae universae iconae" (1823)