ABSTRACT

In the first half of the sixteenth century, as Jerome Bylebyl has shown, medical students, especially foreign students, came to Padua for its offerings in practical,

6 Acta, 1597, vol. 2, 109-10: Quam ob causam vero Anatomistam ex nostris quotannis procurare debeamus, pluribus demonstrare possem; hoc solum quaero: Quis nobis est, qui Patavium non tam exactissimarum anatomiarum quam fori tantummodo practici caussa adveniat?