Carlo Fracassati Latinized as Carolus Fracassatus ( – 12 October 1672) was an Italian anatomist and professor. He was a colleague and collaborator of Marcello Malphigi.

Life and work

Fracassati was born in Bologna in a family that came from Budrio. He joined university where his contemporaries included Marcello Malphigi, Giambattista Capponi and C. Golfieri. As a student of

Bartolomeo Massari Bartolomeo Massari (c. 1596 – 18 February 1655) was an Italian painter turned astrological doctor and anatomist. He was the tutor of Marcello Malphigi and Carlo Fracassati. Massari was born in Bologna the son of the artist Lucio Massari Luc ...

, he was part of a circle of nine anatomists called the "chorus anatomicus" who met regularly at the home of the professor. They conducted dissections and vivisection experiments on animals. One of the experiments they conducted was on the circulation of blood. These meetings ended when Massari died in 1655. He graduated in philosophy and medicine in 1656 and then taught logic for three years. He then taught medical theory at Bologna from 1659 and worked under the chair of surgery from 1660 and taught medical practice from 1662 to 1664. He published ''Hecatombe physioiatrica'' in 1656 and ''Praelectio medica'' in 1659. In 1663 he moved to Pisa but continued to work with colleagues in Bologna. At Pisa he worked with

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and others. Among the work was on the papillary structures in the tongue involved in taste sensation. In 1670 he went to teach at the

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where he died two years later.

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