Turisanus de Turisanis was the Latin name of Pietro Torrigiano de' Torrigiani (died c. 1320), a theoretical physician from a well-known Florentine family who taught medicine in Paris, c. 1305–19, and wrote an elaborated and influential series of commentaries on

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...

's ''Microtechni'', ''Plusquam commentum in Microtechni Galenii'' and a shorter ''De hypostasi urine Galeni''. The two commentaries, all that survives of Torrigiani's output, were printed together by Ugo Rugerius in 1489, and in several later editions, both

incunabula An incunable or incunabulum (: incunables or incunabula, respectively) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside (printing), broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. The specific date is essentiall ...

and 16th-century printings. The work took the conventional form of the set of '' quaestiones disputatae'' familiar in

Scholasticism Scholasticism was a medieval European philosophical movement or methodology that was the predominant education in Europe from about 1100 to 1700. It is known for employing logically precise analyses and reconciling classical philosophy and Ca ...

. He was trained in the famed medical school of Bologna as a pupil of the Florentine

Taddeo Alderotti Taddeo Alderotti (Latin: Thaddaeus Alderottus, French : Thaddée de Florence), born in Florence between 1206 and 1215, died in 1295, was an Italian doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Bologna, who made important contributions ...

(Thaddeus Florentinus). In his old age he retired to a

Carthusian monastery This is a list of Carthusian monasteries, or charterhouses, containing both extant and dissolved monasteries of the Carthusians (also known as the Order of Saint Bruno) for monks and nuns, arranged by location under their present countries. Also ...

, thus he is referred to a ''Monachus''.''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', ''s.v.'' "Medicine". He was the first medieval physician to propose an original theory about blood and its role in the human system.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Turisanus 1320s deaths Physicians from Florence 14th-century Italian physicians 14th-century Italian writers 14th-century Christian monks Italian medical writers University of Bologna alumni Carthusians 14th-century writers in Latin 14th-century people from the Republic of Florence