| Authorised form of name | Valisnieri; Antonio (1661 - 1730) |
| Other forms of surname | Vallisneri |
| Vallisnieri |
| Dates | 1661 - 1730 |
| Place of birth | Castle of Trassilico, Garfagnana district, Lucca province, Italy |
| Date of birth | 03 May 1661 |
| Place of death | Padua, Italy |
| Date of death | 18 January 1730 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Biology |
| Medicine |
| Natural history |
| Activity | Education:
School at Modena; Reggio Emilia; BA (1682), MD (1685); Bologna (1682-1684); Venice (1687); Parma (1688)
Career:
Lived in Bologna (1685-1687); practised in Scandiano; Professor of Practical Medicine (1700-1710), then Professor of Theoretical Medicine (1710-death) at Padua; offered and declined the pot of Papal Physician on the death of Giovanni Maria Lancisi (FRS 1706) (1720) and the chair of medicine at Turin; Honorary Physician to the Emperor; knighted by the Duke of Modena (1728); died of pleurisy; amassed a large library and one of the finest cabinets of curiosities in Italy
Memberships:
Academia Curiosorum Naturae (1707)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1703 |
| Relationships | Son of Lorenzo Valisnieri, Tutor to the Duke of Modena, and his wife, Maria Lucrezia Davini; married Laura Mattacodi; his surviving son succeeded him in the chair of Theoretical Medicine at Padua |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Eloy |
| Code | NA4903 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EL/R2/5 | Letter, from William Rutty to Signor [Antonio] Vallisnieri | 20 August 1728 |
| EL/B3/8 | Letter, from Antonio Vallisneri [to the Royal Society], dated at Padova [Padua] | 22 December 1728 |
| EL/V/56 | Letter, from Antony Vallisneri to William Rutty, dated at Passau | 20 May 1728 |
| EL/B3/9 | Letter, from Antonio Vallisneri [to the Royal Society], dated at Padova [Padua] | 29 January 1729 |
| EL/B3/7 | Letter, from Antonio Vallisneri [to the Royal Society], dated at Padova [Padua] | 3 November 1728 |
| EL/M3/5 | Extract of a letter, from Massei to [Antonio] Vallisneri | 1719 |
| EL/V/55 | Letter, from Antony Vallisneri to Thomas Dereham, dated at Verona | 8 November 1725 |
| EL/W3/82 | Letter, from Richard Waller to Antonio Vallisnerio, dated at London | 1714 |