Giuseppe Oronzo Giannuzzi's head

A memorial tablet with a bronze head of Giuseppe Oronzo Giannuzzi can be seen in the gynecological ward of the old hospital "Umberto I" of Altamura, the town where he was born¹. The tablet reports 1839 as his year of birth while the official register of births of Altamura reveals the correct year: 1838².

The Italian inscription on the tablet reads as follows: "GIUSEPPE GIANNUZZI / INSIGNE STUDIOSO ALTAMURANO / 1839-1876" (Giuseppe Giannuzzi / famous scholar of Altamura).

• Photos and main text by Lucrezia Arcari ti.oohay|iracraaizercul#| and Mariateresa Laborante ti.liamtoh|etnarobalaseretairam#| (November 2014)

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Footnotes

1. V. Chierico, Elogio funebre del Cav. Giuseppe Giannuzzi Professore di Fisiologia nell'Università di Siena, Tipografia Conti, Matera, 1876, p. 3

2. See C. Ricci, Giuseppe Giannuzzi, lo scopritore delle lunule, in C. Ricci and G. Carissimo, La Triade Scientifica Altamurana, Quaderni dell'A.T.A. Pro Loco Altamura, 2 (1988), p. 7