This is the monument to the famous physician and surgeon Andrea Vaccà-Berlinghieri, who died in 1826 in Pisa.
The municipality wanted to dedicate him a monument in the Monumental Cemetery, located in Pisa (Piazza del Duomo, 17), the same cemetery in which we can find Vaccà-Berlinghieri’s tomb.
The work, commissioned to the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, represents the Biblical episode of “Tobias and the Angel”, and it was inaugurated on February 14th, 1830.
ANDREA VACCA’ BERLINGHIERI’S MONUMENT
In the centre of the monument there is a Latin inscription that reads as follows: “ANDREA VACCA’-BERLINGHIERI NOB PISANO/ EQUITI ORI … IOSEPHI/ DOCTORI CHIRURGIA IN PATRIO ATHENEO/ QUI SUMMA ARTIS PERITIA ET MANUS STRENITATE FEDELII MULTIS/ ISDEMQUEM LAUDIBUS ET IN ENTIS ET SCRIPTIS EDITIS/ ADMIRABILIS UTI OMNIBUS/ DECESS VIII ID SEPTEMBR AN M DCCC XXVI AET… LIV M VII D III/ AMICI UNO OPTIMO LI EXIMIA BENIGNITATIS AERE PROPR… PON…”.
On the left side of the monument there is another Latin inscription that reads as follows: “TAMQUAM CAIO/ HOMINUS BONO/ DEMISSUM/ TE UNIVERSI/ SUNT REVERITI”.
On the right side of the monument there is a third Latin inscription that reads as follows: “LUCTES PUBERIS/ OBIISTI…”.
- Photos and main text by Carlotta Foti and Giada Antonelli (December 2017)
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