1581-1625 Italian physician who investigated the anatomy of the digestive system. As a professor of anatomy at Pavia, he cut open a recently fed dog and noted white structures though the mesentery and along the surface of the intestines that emitted a...

Gaspare Aselli, or Asellio (1581 - 1626) was an Italian physician noted for the discovery of the lacteal vessels of the lymphatic system. Aselli discovered (or rediscovered) the chylous vessels, and studied systematically the significance of these...

Gasparo Contarini, the polished patrician, savvy diplomat, impoverished cardinal and idealistic but impractical church reformer, was busy about two enterprise in the first half of the sixteenth century: the political and diplomatic developments in Venetian civic policy and the dogmatic and ecclesiastical maneuverings...

Correspondance du Nonce en France: Gasparo Silingardi, Ãvêque de Modène (1599-1601). Edited by Bertrand Haan. [Acta Nuntiaturae Gallicae, 17. ] (Rome: Ãcole française de Rome and Université Pontificale Grégorienne. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 598. Paperback.) In the study of papal diplomacy in early Bourbon...