Article ID: CBB998422454

L’enigma della «suicida punita»: un preparato anatomico di Lodovico Bru­netti vincitore della medaglia d’oro all’esposizione universal di Parigi del 1867 (2011)

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This article reconstructs the figure of Lodovico Brunetti, the first Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Padua, and Director of the homonymous Institute from 1869 to 1887. He was the inventor of a technique known as ‘‘tannization,’’ for the conservation of animal tissue. In particular, we have reconstructed the episode related to a particularly choking anatomical preparation, created by Brunetti in 1863, called ‘‘The Punished Suicide.’’ This composition, together with a series of 66 preparations, allowed him to win the ‘‘Gran prix’’ at the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1867.

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Authors & Contributors
Zanatta, Alberto
Gallanti, Chiara
Zampieri, Fabio
Varotto, Mauro
Licata, Marta
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Journals
Medicina Historica
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Social History of Medicine
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
History of Psychiatry
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Edizioni dell'Orso
Cierre edizioni
Viella
Truman State University Press
Polistampa
L'Erma di Bretschneider
Concepts
Medicine and art
Medicine
Medicine and society
Universities and colleges
Preservation, tissue
Museums
People
Brunetti, Lodovico
Dalla Vedova, Giuseppe
Bernardi, Enrico
Calza, Luigi
Biheron, Marie Marguerite
Fanzago, Francesco Luigi
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Padua (Italy)
Sweden
Rome (Italy)
Paris (France)
Institutions
University of Padua
Bologna. Università
Università di Pavia
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