Prohibition against dissecting people in Italy duriong early rennaissance please?

Question

I'm looking for a site that actually says that there was a prohibition against dissecting human corpses(cadavers) in Italy inbetween 1452 and 1529. please help. I need the info within the hour. thank you!!!! Sofar all I've found has been just hints. I need something that truly says it. Thank you!!!!

Answer 1

Hey Liv,

This is probably late. Embedded in the text of this web site:

The Renaissance saw a resurgence in interest in anatomy, in part urged by the studies of such artists as Leonardo da Vinci, who demonstrated the homology of muscular structures in humans and animals. The new interest that arose in the sixteenth century began the first systematic, empircal study of gross anatomy, the description of the systems visible to the unaided eye. Still investigations were hampered by concerns about the morality and legality of dissecting human bodies. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), for instance, one of the founders of modern anatomy, published On the Structure of the Human Body in 1543 and later received a death sentence under the Inquisition for his anatomizations of human bodies. Andreas's pupils made a number of important advances on his work. The Spaniard Michael Servetus discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood from the right chamber of the heart to the lungs, and demonstrated that the septum was impermeable. Another student, Realdo Columbus, made important discoveries about the circulation of the blood and respiration, and in fact introduced the term circulation into biological discourse. The English physician William Harvey acknowledged his debt to Columbus in his 1628 Exercitatio de motu cordis et sanguinis (Essay on the Motion of the Heart and Blood).