Marcello Garzaniti, Gli slavi: storia, culture

Marcello Malpighi (1646-1694)

Malpighi was born in 1628 in Crevalcore, Bologna, Italy, and he was baptized 10 March of that year. His parents were Maria Cremonini and Marcantonio Malpighi. He entered the University of Bologna [5] in Bologna in 1646, and his tutor Francesco Natali encouraged him to study medicine, which he began in 1649. While in medical school he was one of only a few students permitted to attend vivisectio...

The correspondence of Marcello Malpighi

Opera Scelte di Marcello Malpighi

Opera Scelte di Marcello Malpighi, by LUIGI BELLONI (Classici della Scienza, No. 11), Turin, Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1968, pp. 649, illus., L. 9500. Few Italian medical men are of more interest to English readers than Marcello Malpighi because of his intimate relationship with our Royal Society. Luigi Belloni who has for many years concentrated his attention on the rich field of I...

Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology

Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology, by HOWARD B. ADELMANN, 5 vols. (pp. 2475) 4to, 16 plates (11 col.), map, Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press, 1966. £70. Howard Adelmann made his first venture into the history of embryology in 1933 with his study of Volcher Coiter. Twenty-five years ago, in 1942, he followed this with The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus ...

Mouse Thalamic Differentiation: Gli-Dependent Pattern and Gli-Independent Prepattern

Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling is essential for thalamic development. The Gli transcription factors act downstream of Shh - while Gli2 is the major activator (GliA), Gli3 acts primarily as a repressor (GliR). The thalamus is remarkable among dorsal structures because of its proximity to the mid-diencephalic organizer, a unique dorsal Shh source. This lends complexity to the interactions between...