This memorial fresco in honour of Giovan Battista Cortesi can be seen at the bottom of the left staircase leading to the upper floor of the Archiginnasio Palace in Bologna (Piazza Galvani, 1).
The Latin inscription reads as follows:”IO. BAPT. CORTESIO BONONIENSI MEDICO / CHIRURGIAE PROFESSORI CLARISSIMO QUI DUM IN ADMINISTRANDA / PUBLICE ANATOME MIRAS INGENII IUDICII ELOQUENTIAE / OPES EXPLICARET SUMMA DEXTERITATE AC PERITIA PARTES / HUMANI CORPORIS DISSECARET LATINE OMNES GRAECE ARABICE / INCREDIBILI MEMORIAE VI INDICITANDO PROPOSITA ETIAM IN / FREQUENTISSIMA AUDITORUM CORONA A CELEBERRIMIS VIRIS PRO- / BLEMATA OBIECTAQ. ARGUMENTA EX TEMPORE ITA SOLVERET / UT EIUS RESPONSA TANQUAM ORACULA AB IPSO MICROCOSMI / OPIFICE EDITA EXCIPERENTUR MEDICINAE ETIAM CANDIDATOS PRIVATIS / OSTENSIONIBUS HUMANISSIME OBEUNDIS MIRIFICE DEVINXIT / HOC GRATI IN EUM ANIMI MNEMOSYNON EI ET SYND. M. LL. Q. P. P. / ANNUENTIBUS ILLUSTRIB. D. D. M. ANTONIO AURELIANO VICENTINO PRIORE ET / FRANCISCO BRUSCO MANTUANO ET ALEX. VOSIO PARMENSE PRAESIDENTIBUS / MDXCVII FEBRUAR.”
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Sitography
- See the record of the Archiginnasio Digital Archive “La Storia sui Muri”