FALCINELLI, Bernardino.

by Bernardino Falcinelli

£1,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

A good copy of the first edition of this rare and fascinating textbook on surgery written by the Italian master Falcinelli for the students of the School of Surgery of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence. The public school of Surgery annexed to the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence was founded in the 1580s by the Granduke Ferdinando de Medici (1549-1609), and it is the oldest in Tuscany. The lessons were entrusted by the Surgical Masters of the hospital who held them without payment ( ) The students were admitted to the school after having passed an examination which entitled them to start on a course of study lasting seven years, during which period the time devoted to practical exercises was much greater than that dedicated to theoretical teaching (Tombaccini). Bernardino Falcinelli (end of the 16th 17th century), was a physician and surgeon who, after practicing for 20 years in Siena and in Florence, was appointed master at Santa Maria Nuova by Monsignor Francesco Medici, the current Spedalingo (meaning rector of the hospital ). Instituzione alla cirurgia , as Falcinelli states in the book presentation, is an easy and brief introduction to surgery, which he was asked to compose and publish by his honorable and virtuous students , his colleagues and his friends. Falcinelli s passion for teaching and for the subject is evident throughout the work, when he describes surgery as a form of art; at the end, the only reward he asks from his young students for his efforts is that

• Binding: Hardcover

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