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Mundinus de Leuciis
Alternative names
Mondino dei Liuzzi
Mundinus de Bononia
Mondino dei Liucci
Disciplines
Medicine
Period of activity
1295 - 1326
Teaching locations
Bologna
- 1270 ca.: born in Bologna to a family of Tuscan origin.
- 1311: a private document records that Mondino resides in Bologna, in the chapel of Sant’Antonino.
- 1312: engages in a disputation, documented in the manuscripts München, C.L.M. 244, ff. 135v-138v and Vatican City, Vat. Lat. 2418, ff. 168ra-169rb
- 1316: composes the Anathomia.
- 1316: arranges for Master Uguccione di Giglio to transfer from the University of Padua to San Marco in Florence to teach natural philosophy at the conventual school.
- 1320: purchases land in Barbiano, near Bologna.
- 1321: listed among the salaried masters of the Municipality of Bologna, teaching medicine with an annual salary of 50 lire.
- 1323: July 20, Master Fiduccio Milotti da Certaldo, a friend of Dante, writes his will at Mondino’s residence.
- 1324: again recorded as a salaried master in Bologna, now teaching practical medicine with an annual salary of 100 lire.
- 1326: February 17, Dictates his will and dies shortly thereafter. Buried alongside his uncle Liuzzo at the Church of Saints Vitale and Agricola in Bologna.
- (Source: Tabarroni 1992: 615)
- Giorgi P., Introduzione a Anothomia di Mondino de’ Liuzzi da Bologna, XIV secolo, Giorgi P.P. – Cavazza G.– Pasini G.F., Bologna 1992
- Tabarroni A., Notizie biografiche su alcuni maestri di arti e medicina, in Buzzetti D. – Ferriani M. – Tabarroni A. (eds.), L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo, Bologna 1992: 615
Andrea Tabarroni