ABSTRACT
The introduction outlines the surprising scarcity of original historical scholarship on Falloppia, with only one major monograph devoted to him, almost a century ago. It presents the major sources for this book, namely Falloppia’s Observationes anatomicae, his rather scant surviving correspondence, and, above all, student notes on his lectures on a wide range of topics, in anatomy, surgery, and pharmacology. Many of these notes were published after his death, and others, including detailed accounts of Falloppia’s anatomical demonstrations, which historians have almost totally ignored so far, have come down to us in manuscript.
