Massa, Niccolo

1. Dates

Born: Venice, 1485

Died: Venice, 27 August 1569

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 84

2. Father

Occupation: No Information

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Italian

Career: Italian

Death: Italian

4. Education

Schooling: Padua, M.D.

He studied medicine and graduated with an M.D. from the University of Padua. I assume a B.A. or its equivalent.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic

He was buried in S. Domenico di Castello.

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Anatomy, Medicine

He undertook a program of dissection and investigation of the human body at least from 1526 to 1533, producing a treatise entitled Liber introductorius anatomiae (Venice, 1536), which remained the best brief textbook on the subject for a generation.

He also wrote on pestilential fevers, on syphilis, and on medicine in general.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Medicine

He practiced medicine in Venice, where he was known chiefly as a clinician and syphilologist.

8. Patronage

Type: None

9. Technological Involvement

Type: Medical Practice

10. Scientific Societies

Membership: Medical College

He entered the Venetian College of Physicians in 1521.

Sources

1. Luigi Nardo, "Dell'anatomia in Venezia," Ateneo Veneto, fasc. 2-3 (1897).
2. S. de Renzi, Storia della medicina in Italia, 5 vols. (Naples, 1845-8), 3, 155-6. R517. R424 Dezeimeris, J.E. Ollivier and Raige-Delorme, Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, 4 vols. (Paris, 1828-39), 3, 536-7. The names, without first names or initials except for Ollivier, appear this way on volume 1; Dezeimeris alone appears on the remaining volumes.
3. G. Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana, 7, 621.
4. Giacomo Alberici, Catologo breve de gl'illustri e famosi scrittori venetiani, (Bologna, 1605), p. 66.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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