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TAGLIACOZZI, GASPARE().!
The Italian physician Gaspare Tagliacozzi wrote the first textbook on plastic surgery in the Western world in Called The Surgery of Defects by.Gaspare Tagliacozzi
Italian surgeon (XVI century)
Gaspare Tagliacozzi (his last name has also been spelled Taliacotius, Tagliacoze or Tagliacozzio;[1] Bologna, March 1545 – Bologna, 7 November 1599) was an Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Biography
Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna.
Tagliacozzi began his medical studies in 1565. He studied at the University of Bologna under Gerolamo Cardano for medicine, Ulisse Aldrovandi for natural sciences and Julius Caesar Aranzi for anatomy.
Tagliacozzi was professor of surgery and anatomy at Bologna.
At the age of twenty-four, he earned his degree in philosophy and medicine.
Career
He was then appointed professor of surgery and later was appointed professor of anatomy. He taught at the Archiginnasio of Bologna.
The amphitheater in which Tagliacozzi taught was severely damaged by American bombing during World War II. The theater was rebuilt and currently houses a wooden statue of Tagliacozzi. It is in this room that Tagliacozzi taught until
