Person Valisnieri; Antonio (1661 - 1730) Valisnieri Antonio Vallisneri Vallisnieri 1661 - 1730 Male Castle of Trassilico, Garfagnana district, Lucca province, Italy 03 May 1661 Padua, Italy 18 January 1730

Physician Biology Medicine Natural history 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) 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 Fellow 30/11/1703 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB; Eloy International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 3 May 1661 - 18 Jan 1730 NA4903 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 0c238c48-8b33-427b-ad82-2686cf6f2f99