Taddeo Alderotti

Taddeo Alderotti (Thaddaeus Alderottus in Latin) was a Florentine physician who taught medicine at the University of Bologna in the thirteenth century and died in 1295. He moved to Bologna in the mid-1260s, when it was one of the three universities that dominated medical education in Western Europe, and became known as an excellent teacher whose lectures drew large crowds. His teaching relied on Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna, and he is counted among the first to organize a formal medical lecture at the university. Many of his students became leading doctors and professors, among them Mondino de' Liuzzi and Dino del Garbo. His writings include medical consultations, commentaries on Galen and Hippocrates and a work on preserving health, and one text describes concentrating ethanol by repeated distillation. He had patients across northern Italy and died wealthy.