Fabrizio Bigotti

Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History of the University of Exeter (UK) and Director of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) Pisa. He Studied at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and at the Warburg Institute of London (2012-2013) receiving afterwards numerous grants and awards, including the Wellcome Trust Fellowship in Medical Humanities (2015-2018) and the Folger Institute Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library of Washington DC (February-May 2017). As an Intellectual Historian with a specialization in History and Philosophy of Science, Medicine and Technology, he has published widely, in Italian and English, on the development of the classical tradition in the early modern period. In his forthcoming monograph Physiology of the Soul. Mind, Body, and Matter in the Galenic Tradition of the Late Renaissance 1550-1630 (Brepols 2018) he explores how the understanding of the body changed in the early modern period in connection to the rediscovery and criticism of Galen’s physiology, and how this debate contributed to the emergence of new methods of natural enquiry. Most recently Fabrizio Bigotti has concentred on the history of technology, devoting himself to the recreation of Santorio’s medical laboratory (2017, in cooperation with engineer David Taylor) and uncovering numerous manuscripts on the social and political connections between Galileo, Santorio and the Venetian society of the end of the sixteenth century.