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. 2014 Feb;55(1):50-3.
doi: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.50.

Mondino de Luzzi: a luminous figure in the darkness of the Middle Ages

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Mondino de Luzzi: a luminous figure in the darkness of the Middle Ages

Alexandra Mavrodi et al. Croat Med J. 2014 Feb.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Portrait of Mondino created by Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla (Available from: http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/detail/NLMNLM~1~1~101436495~174950:Mondino-De-Luzzi).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Mondino’s statue among other statues of major personalities from the history of medicine created by Silvestro Giannotti in the anatomical theater of the Palazzo dell' Archiginnasio at the University of Bologna (the photograph published with the permission of Lucca Borghi from Himetop – The History of Medicine Topographical Database).

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