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ANTONIO SCARPA (1752-1832): Memoria sulla legatura delle principali arterie degli arti con una appendice all’opera sull’aneurisma Pavia, Dalla tipografia di Pietro Bizzoni successo a Bolzani, 1817
ANTONIO SCARPA (1752-1832)
Memoria sulla legatura delle principali arterie degli arti con una appendice all’opera sull’aneurisma Pavia, Dalla tipografia di Pietro Bizzoni successo a Bolzani, 1817
§ Large 4to (23x33x1,5 cm); VIII, 136 pp., signature: [no sign.]1-4, 1-171-4. Printed exlibris on paste-down From the library of Kenneth Clark Saltwood” Later half-vellum, printed tittle label on spine. Very fine copy on large, strong paper
First edition. A previous work on aneurysms (to which the present edition contains an “appendix”), was published in 1804 and stimulated the study of blood vessels, arteries in particular, from other researchers. Scarpa studied in Padua where, among his teachers,were Giovanni Battista Morgagni, founder of modern pathological anatomy, and the surgeon Girolamo Vandelli. Scarpa graduated in medicine and philosophy in 1770 and two years later was appointed professor of anatomy in Modena. In 1783 he obtained the chairs of anatomy and surgery in Pavia, where he became also director of the clinic of surgery since its foundation; he was also director of the anatomical museum, which,under his guide, gained european fame. Scarpa is best remembered for his outstanding works in the fields of anatomy and surgery.
Ref: De Renzi, V, pp. 199-204 and passim; Maria Carla Garbarino, Valentina Cani, Scarpa, Antonio In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; Garrison Morton, 2940