Giovanni Manzolini Giovanni Manzolini Giovanni Manzolini (1700-1755) was a Bolognese artist, an expert maker of wax anatomical models and a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. His wife Anna Morandi Manzolini also became a well-known maker of wax anatomical models. Giovanni Manzolini was born in 1700 in Bologna, the son of a shoemaker. As a young man he helped his father in his trade. In 1736 he married Anna Morandi (1716-1774), whom he had known since childhood. His wife had been trained as an artist. They were to have six children before 1755, although four died before reaching adulthood. Deciding
Anatomical Theatre of Padua anatomical demonstrations, only in the late sixteenth century he was formally charged with the teaching of Anatomy. In 1404, during his stay in Vienna, Galeazzo di Santa Sofia undertook the first solemn public dissection, a practice he had obviously first seen and carried out in Padua. Moritz Roth, the great Vesalius Scholar, observes: The turning point would have happened thanks to the contribution of Alessandro Benedetti, an Italian anatomist: in 1514, "Anatomice sive historia corporis humani", the main of his works, was reprinted in Paris. This allowed the spread of his directives for the construction and the organization of a