Francesco Puccinotti

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Francesco Puccinotti (born August 8, 1794 in Urbino , † October 8, 1872 in Florence ) was an Italian man of letters, philosopher, physician and medical historian.

biography

After studying at Scolopi , he was accepted into the Collegio militare of Pavia in 1811 . He then moved to Rome , where he devoted himself to studying medicine following the teachings of the well-known clinician Giuseppe De Matthaeis . After studying medicine, he practiced in Latium and studied the typhus that raged in this area. For his studies he received the chair of anatomy and physiology in Urbino , then taught pathology and forensic medicine in Macerata until 1831 , when he was banned from the city after participating in the Legazioni movement and prevented from practicing his profession. Then he moved to liberal Tuscany , where in 1838 he received the chair of hygiene at the University of Pisa . Here he deepened his medical studies and became the protagonist of many cultural and scientific debates at the local university (he was secretary of the medicine section at the congresses of Italian scientists in Pisa and Florence).

In 1843, Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany accepted him into a commission that was supposed to examine the possibility of introducing rice fields on the Pisan coast from a civil medical perspective. He presented his analyzes in the essay "On rice fields in Italy and their introduction in Tuscany" in the same year: conclusions that will form the basis for the regulation on the cultivation of rice in Tuscany of September 1849. In the last few years that he spent in Pisa, he was given the chair in the history of medicine, which he retained after moving to Florence . During these years he met his student Pietro Siciliani, with whom he maintained a constant friendship and collaboration. He died in Florence in October 1872 and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce for his services .

Puccinotti was a medical historian, but there are other aspects of his complex personality: he was a physiologist, clinician, coroner, writer (brotherly friendship with Giacomo Leopardi ), philosopher, sociologist, and politician. His life took place at a time of profound ideological divisions between the Napoleonic conquests and the proclamation of Rome as the capital. The credit for supporting the need for medical protection for workers and for pointing out the future of medicine in its sanitary and social development should not be overlooked.

Fonts

  • Storia delle febbri intermittenti perniciose . Rome 1822 (Italian, google.at ).
  • Il Boezio ed altri scritti filosofici . Florence 1864 (Italian, google.at ).
  • Storia della medicina . tape 1 . Florence 1850 (Italian, google.at ).
  • Storia della medicina. Volume II, 2. Livorno 1859.

literature

  • Adalberto Pazzini: Puccinotti, Francesco . In: Valentino Bompiani editore (ed.): Dizionario Letterario Bompiani. Autori . tape III . Milan 1957, p. 252 .
  • Stefania Fortuna:  PUCCINOTTI, Francesco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 85:  Ponzone-Quercia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2016.

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SURNAME Puccinotti, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor, philosopher and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Urbino
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1872
Place of death Florence