Antonio Valisnieri ( 1661 - 1730 )

Birth: Castle of Trassilico, Garfagnana district, Lucca province, Italy (03 May 1661) Death: Padua, Italy (18 January 1730) Research Field: Biology, medicine, natural history Profession: Physician Education: School at Modena; Reggio Emilia; BA (1682), MD (1685); Bologna (1682-1684); Venice (1687); Parma (1688) Career: Lived in Bologna (1685-1687); practised in Scandiano; Professor of Practical Medicine (1700-1710), then Professor of Theoretical Medicine (1710-death) at Padua; offered and declined the pot of Papal Physician on the death of Giovanni Maria Lancisi (FRS 1706) (1720) and the chair of medicine at Turin; Honorary Physician to the Emperor; knighted by the Duke of Modena (1728); died of pleurisy; amassed a large library and one of the finest cabinets of curiosities in Italy Memberships: Academia Curiosorum Naturae (1707) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1703.