ABSTRACT
This chapter follows Falloppia’s attempts to exchange his anatomical lectureship in Padua against a different lectureship in Bologna and seeks to identify the reasons why he was not content with his situation in Padua. It describes the inferior position, which the university hierarchy assigned to the anatomist and the animosity of his colleagues who resented that Falloppia also lectured on anatomy rather than only dissecting, and with whom he entered into heated public controversies about specific medical and anatomical issues. Moreover, Falloppia’s private life and the accusations and rumors concerning his relationship with Melchior Wieland are discussed, with whom he shared his house for almost a decade. The chapter concludes with an account of the fatal disease that killed him within a week and of the murder of one of his major adversaries, Bassiano Landi, just a few days after his funeral, quite possibly by the hands of some disciples of Falloppia’s.
