Lorenzo Bellini

Lorenzo Bellini was an Italian physician and anatomist, born in Florence in 1643 and dead there in 1704. While still around twenty he researched the structure of the kidneys and described the papillary ducts that carry his name, published in the Exercitatio Anatomica de Structura Usu Renum of 1662. He was chosen professor of theoretical medicine at Pisa and soon moved to the chair of anatomy, where he stayed some thirty years. He was then invited to Florence as physician to the grand duke Cosimo III and became senior consulting physician to Pope Clement XI. His works were collected and published in Venice in 1708. Bellini's duct and the Bellini duct carcinoma are named after him.