Realdo colombo biography of alberta

(b. Cremona, Italy, ca.

Realdo colombo biography of alberta

1510; d. Rome, Italy, 15590, anatomy, physiology.

Relatively little is known of Colombo’s life; he is frequently given the first name Matteo, but this seems to be an error. He was the son of Antonio Colombo, an apothercary, and received his undergraduate education at Milan.

For a short time he seems to have pursued his father’s trade but then to have become an apprentice to Giovanni Antonio Lonigo, a leading Venetian surgeon, with whom he remained for seven years. By 1538 he had gone on to study at the University of Padua, whose archives for that year refer to him as “an outstanding student of sugery.” While still a medical student he occupied a chair of sophitics at Padua for the academic year 1540/1541.

He probaly received his degree in 1541, and by 1542 he had returned to Venice to assist Lonigo.

Late in 1542 Andreas Vesalius, the professor of surgery and anatomy at Padua, went to Switzerland to oversee the printing of his Fabr