Paolo Zacchia

This page lists items in the database related to Italian physician Paolo Zacchia, who served Pope Innocenzo X as archiater (b. Rome, Italy, 1584; d. Rome, Italy, 1659):

• Paolo Zacchia's bust in the Entrance Hall of the Faculté de Médecine in Montpellier

• Paolo Zacchia's tomb (disappeared) in Rome

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Biography

Paolo Zacchia (1584-1659) was an Italian physician, father of the forensic medicine. He was archiater of Innocent X¹ and Alessandro VII² and also a protomedicist of the Papal State. He made substantial progress in the study of forensic medicine with the work “Quaestiones medico-legales” (1621-35), considered a classic text throughout Europe.

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Bibliography

• Pietro Capparoni, "Paolo Zacchia", Enciclopedia Italiana, 1937
• Mario Crespi, ''Paolo Zacchia'' in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 1963, vol. 5
• Luigi Gaetano Marini, Degli Archiatri Pontifici, Pagliarini, Roma 1784, vol. 2, pp. 118-123
• Luigi Gaetano Marini, Degli Archiatri Pontifici, Pagliarini, Roma 1784, vol. 1, p. 46

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Footnotes

1. Marini 1784, vol.2 pp. 118-123

2. Marini 1784, vol. 1 p. 46