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Article: Banti, Guido
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Banti, Guido
(
b
. Montebicchieri, Italy, 8 June 1852;
d
. Florence, Italy, 8 January 1925)
pathology.
Banti, the most eminent Italian pathologist of the early twentieth century, was born in a typical village of Tuscany, in the lower valley of the Arno
River. He was the son of Dr. Scipione Banti, a physician, and Virginia Bruni. He studied medicine at the University of Pisa, but was graduated in 1877 from the Medical School of Florence. He was then appointed assistant at the Archihospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and, at the same time, assistant at the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy. Banti was tireless worker. Chief of the hospital medical service from 1882, in 1890 he became ...