Giambattista Canano

Giambattista Canano, also called Giovanni Battista Canano, was an Italian physician and anatomist of the sixteenth century, active mainly in his native Ferrara. His aristocratic family was of Greek ancestry and produced a number of physicians and scholars, and his father was a notary. His studies were most likely directed by his uncle Hippolito. He became professor of anatomy at the University of Ferrara in 1541, served as physician to Francesco d'Este in France in 1544 and was personal physician to Pope Julius III from 1552 to 1555. He carried out most of his dissections at his own home with his cousin Antonio Maria Canano, before leading physicians of the city, and he was a colleague of Vesalius.