Bernardino Ramazzini's tomb

Bernardino Ramazzini was buried in the church of the Beata Elena in Padua (via Belzoni, 134). A memorial tablet, dating back to 1933, remembers him on the church's facade.

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The Latin inscription reads as follows: "BERNARDINO RAMAZZINI / CARPENSI / PHILOSOPHO AC MEDICO / IN MUTINENSI ACADEMIA / PRIMUM MEDICINAE THEORICAE PROFESSORI / POSTREMO / IN PATAVINO LYCEO PRACTICAE MEDICINAE / PROFESSORI PRIMARIO / QUI SUMMA LITERARUM JACTURA / OCTOGENARIO MAJOR / E VIVI EXCESSIT / NONIS NOVEMBRIS ANNO SALUTIS NOSTRAE MDCCXIV / UT GRATUM SE CELEBERRIMO PATRUO OSTENDERET / INSCRIPTIONEM HANC POSUIT / AMANTISSIMUS EX FRATRE NEPOS / BARTHOLOMAEUS RAMAZZINUS / MEDICINAE DOCTOR. PATAVINA UNIVERSITAS STUDIORUM / QUOD RAMAZZINUS / DE MORBIS ARTIFICUM CURANDIS OPTIE MERITUS / EDITIS LIBRIS OMNIUM PRIMUS TRACTAVIT / ANNO SAECUL. AB EIUS NAT. III REDEUNTE / HUNC TITULUM / TANDEM LAPIDE INCIDENDUM ET PROPE SEPULCRUM CONLOCANDUM / IV NON. OCTOBR. A. MDCCCCXXXIII. XI A F.R. / CAROLO ANTI RECTORE / DECREVIT"1.

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  • Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (October 2016)

Bibliography

- Marin VT, Bellinati C, Panetto M, Zanchin G., “Bernardino Ramazzini lies in Padua”, Lancet. 2003 Nov 15;362(9396):1680



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