Luca Tozzi (21 November 1638 – 11 March 1717) was an Italian physician, active in Rome and Naples.

Biography

He was born in

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, near

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. He graduated with a degree in medicine in 1659. He published observations of the Comet of 1664. In Naples he joined the

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. He was a substitute teacher for

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at the University of Naples and was named a professor of institutional medicine in 1694. In 1696, he accepted a position as the chief papal physician (archiatro pontificio) and professor of medicine at the

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, where he replaced Marcello Malpighi. With the passing of Pope Innocent XII, he returned to Naples, where he obtained the title of leading physician of the kingdom of Charles II. His works were published in 1721 in Venice.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tozzi, Luca 1638 births 1717 deaths 18th-century Italian physicians Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Physicians from the Kingdom of Naples Expatriates in the Papal States