Anna Morandi Manzolini her to Moscow to lecture and made her a member of the Russian Royal Scientific Association – The British Royal Scoiety elected her a member and invited her to lecture in London – Honored in Italy as the inventor and perfecter of anatomical preparations in wax Anna Morandi Manzolini Anna Morandi Manzolini (21 January 1714 – 9 July 1774) was an internationally known anatomist and anatomical wax modeler, as lecturer of anatomical design at the University of Bologna. Anna Morandi was born in 1714 in Bologna, Italy. She was raised in a traditional home where marriage, children, and a domestic
Anatomical machines with metal wires and nails, and some of them are out of place. At the woman skeleton's feet it was placed a fetus which, according to di Sangro, died together with her mother during birth. It was preserved with exceptional care, complete with placenta and umbilical cord, and it was stolen in the 1990s. Anatomical machines The anatomical machines (Italian: "macchine anatomiche") are a couple of anatomical models reproducing the human circulatory system, exposed in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples. Realised in the second half of the 18th century, they are built on top of a couple of human skeletons,