Tommaso Prelà

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Tommaso Prelà (born January 21, 1765 in Bastia , † February 27, 1846 in Rome ) was an Italian medic.

biography

During the last years of Genoese rule, he was born into a wealthy merchant family in Bastia , Corsica . At the age of nine he was sent to Florence by his father , later he studied medicine at the University of La Sapienza and then at the Istituto Santo Spirito in Rome , of which he later became director. He became the personal physician of Pope Pius VII. As a lover of literature, he left his library in his will to the city of Bastia, whose advice had given him recognition.

A library in Bastia still bears his name and in Rome a street in the Boccea area was named after him. In 2017, a square and a bust were dedicated to him in Bastia.

Tommaso Prelà was the uncle of the poet Salvatore Viale and the engineer Tommaso Viale, as well as the doctor Benedetto Viale Prelà .

literature

  • Tommaso Prelà: Confronto della religione e pietà delle antiche nutrici o balie latine con le nutrici o balie cristiane . Stamperia RCA, Rome 1833 (Italian, google.at ).
  • Tommaso Prelà: Il Boa di Plinio, congettura su la storia della Vaccinazione . Giovanni Giuseppe Destefanis, Milan 1825 (Italian, google.at - Dissertation Accademia dei Lincei).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biblioteque Tommaso Prelà - Bastia . Archived from the original on May 14, 2011.
  2. ↑ Inauguration of the Piazzetta Tommaso Prelà .
personal data
SURNAME Prelà, Tommaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian medic
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Bastia
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1846
Place of death Rome