Florence and its Province

Important places related to the history of medicine and other health-related subjects in Florence, Italy, and its Province. These places are also visible on this Google Map.

• Alexander Fleming and Albert Sabin's plate

• Andrea Cesalpino's statue in the Uffizi

• Angiolo Nespoli's tomb in the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata

• Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria Novella in Via della Scala

• Averroes in the “Trionfo di San Tommaso D’Aquino” fresco in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

• Basilica of Santa Croce with:
  • Florence Nightingale memorial
  • Francesco Puccinotti's memorial tablet
  • Galileo Bonaiuti's tomb
  • Galileo Galilei's tomb

• Bellosguardo Hill memorial tablet in Bellosguardo

• Bona and Nerina Gigliucci's memorial tablet

• Carlo Levi's home and memorial tablet

• Cimitero delle Porte Sante with:
  • Giovanni Meyer's tomb
  • Pellegrino Artusi's tomb
  • Pietro Siciliani's tomb

• English Cemetery with:
  • Bartolomeo Odicini's tomb
  • David Dumbreck's tomb
  • Thomas Southwood Smith's tomb
  • Thomas Williams Trotman's tomb

• Ernestina Paper's consulting rooms

• Ernestina Paper's home

• Felice Cavallotti's cholera quarantine memorial tablet

• Filippo Pacini's home

• Florence Nightingale's birthplace at Villa La Colombaia

• Galleria degli Uffizi with:
  • Andrea Cesalpino's statue
  • Francesco Redi's monument
  • “Galileo Galilei” (c.1635) by Justus Suttermans
  • Paolo Mascagni's statue

• Giuseppe Barellai's house

• Giuseppe Barellai's memorial plaque

• Giuseppe Barellai's tomb

• Giovan Battista Amici's home

• Istituto Ortopedico Toscano "Piero Palagi" (Villa Santa Margherita) with Piero Palagi's bust

• Jessie White and Alberto Mario's home in Bellosguardo

• Jessie White Mario's last home

• "La Specola" - Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze

• Maurizio Bufalini's bust (2) in the Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli

• Maurizio Bufalini's home

• Museo Galileo with:
  • Andrea Cesalpino's bas-relief
  • Francesco Folli's hygrometer
  • Galilean compound microscope
  • Galileo Galilei's bust (2)
  • Giovan Battista Amici's microscopes
  • Giovan Battista Amici's portrait (1874) by Michele Gordigiani

• Museo Nazionale di San Marco with:
  • Fresco with Crucifixion with Saints (1441-1442) by Fra Angelico
  • "Madonna of the Shadows" by Fra Angelico
  • The Annalena Altarpiece (1430s) by Fra Angelico
  • The Bosco ai Frati Altarpiece by Fra Angelico
  • The San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico

• Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology with:
  • Aldo Castellani Collection
  • Aldobrandino Mochi's monument
  • Paolo Mantegazza's monument

• Niels Stensen chapel in San Lorenzo

• Niels Stensen memorial tablet in the cloister of San Lorenzo

• Ospedale degli Innocenti with related items:
  • • • • Foundlings Wheel
        • Madonna degli Innocenti
        • Museo degli Innocenti

• Ospedale di Bonifacio with Vincenzo Chiarugi's memorial tablet

• Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova with related items:
  • Cloister of the Medicherie
  • Luigi Giuntini's bust and funeral tablet
  • Maciej Barski Kochler's bust and memorial tablet
  • Monna Tessa monument

• Paolo Mantegazza's monument

• Paolo Mascagni's house

• Piero Palagi's home

• Pietro Torrigiano Rustichelli's monument

• San Giovanni di Dio's hospital

• The Art of Medicine in the Giotto's Bell-Tower

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Anchiano

• Leonardo da Vinci’s birthplace

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Empoli

• Vincenzo Chiarugi's birthplace

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Pontassieve

• Piero Palagi's tomb

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Vinci

• Leonardo da Vinci’s baptismal font

• "Museo Leonardiano"

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Bibliography

- John Henderson, The Renaissance Hospital. Healing the body and healing the soul, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2006, pp. 458.

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