@article{Borghi_2021, title={LANCISI E I ’LANCISIANI’. SAPERE MEDICO E DIVULGAZIONE NELLA ROMA DEL SETTECENTO}, url={https://www.ilasl.org/Incontri/article/view/728}, DOI={10.4081/incontri.2021.728}, abstractNote={<p>The kaleidoscopic figure of Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), one of <span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">the most remarkable physicians, scientists and scholars in modern Italy, can be a lucky </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">gateway into eighteenth-century Rome – a surprising place for its intellectual vivacity, </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">sometimes unprejudiced and always open to the most innovative expectations. The </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Medical Library he founded, one of the oldest and most important in the world, is only </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">the most concrete among the many contributions that Lancisi gave to the dissemination </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">and growth of medical knowledge of his time. His studies in the field of hygiene and </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">the fight against malaria, his efforts to eradicate fears and popular superstitions caused </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">by the ‘sudden deaths’, the enhancement of new forms of teaching such as the use of </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">anatomical theatres, the active participation to the life of scientific and literary academies </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">of Europe, are all revealing features, which make Lancisi a figure of lasting and </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">widespread interest three centuries after his death. A figure who, according to his first </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">biographer, was so outstanding «in the knowledge of sciences, and in the competence </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">to explain them» that he aroused «the applause, even among the commoners, and the </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">young people».</span></p>}, journal={Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere • Incontri di Studio}, author={Borghi, Luca}, year={2021}, month={mag.} }