This sumptuous marble tablet in honour of Gaspare Tagliacozzi can be admired just beyond the entrance portal to the Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio (Piazza Galvani 1), on the left wall.
The Latin inscription reads as follows: "D[EO] O[PTIMO] M[AXIMO] / GASPARI TALIACOTIO BONONIENSI / THEORICO ORDINARIO / OB HUMANI CORPORIS ANATOMEN OMNIBUS PARTIBUS / ABSOLUTISSIMAM / ADMIRABILI METHODO PERSPICUITATE SUMMA / ACUMINI INGENII DOCTRINAE SOLIDITATE / ELOQUENTIAE SPLENDORE INCREDIBILI / RECLUSIS PHILOSO(PHIAE?) FONTIBUS / MEDICINAE ORACULIS ILLUSTRATIS / NATUARAE IPSIUS ARCANI PATEFACTIS / PLENISSIME ET PLANISSIME EXPLICATAM / POMPILIO TALIAFERRO PARMENSI / OB EANDEM SINGULARI INDUSTRIA ET SOLERTIA PERITISSIME ADMINISTRATAM / BENIGNITATE ET DILIGENTIA MAXIMA PULCHERRIME DEMONSTRATAM / AEVITERNAE MEMORIAE HOC GRATI ANIMI MONIMEN[TUM] ELL ET SYN M L L Q P P / ANNUENT / JACOBO ARCHIDIACONO CREMONENSI / ANTONIO TONELLO EX CARTOCETO FANENSI / JOANNI FIAMBERTO GENUENSI / PRIORIB"1.
- Photo by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (May 2010)
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