1546-1599 Italian surgeon known as the "father of plastic surgery." He became famous throughout Europe for his inventive operation, called Italian or tagliacotian rhinoplasty, which he performed on patients who lacked a complete nose...

Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546 – November 7, 1599) was an Italian surgeon. Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna. He studied at the University of Bologna under Jerome Cardan, taking his degree in philosophy and medicine at the age of twenty-four. He was...

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...