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2 unusual facts about Antonio Scarpa


University History Museum, University of Pavia

It reflects the history of the University, where doctors worked with great scholars such as Antonio Scarpa and Camillo Golgi or the physicist Alessandro Volta.

The museum was created in 1932 to accommodate the material that was kept in the Palazzo Botta, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Antonio Scarpa, founder of the Anatomical School of Pavia.


Cajetan von Textor

He spent the next few years on an extended educational journey throughout Europe, where he studied with Alexis Boyer (1757–1833) in Paris, Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832) in Pavia and Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821) in Vienna.

Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Among his more celebrated pupils were Antonio Scarpa (who died in 1832, connecting the school of Morgagni with the modern era), Domenico Cotugno (1736–1822), and Caldani (1725–1813), the author of the magnificent atlas of anatomical plates published in 2 volumes at Venice in 1801–1814.


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