The Sala Lancisiana is a

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building located in

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, part of the hospital of

San Giacomo degli Incurabili The hospital of ''San Giacomo in Augusta'' (Saint James in Augusta), also known as San Giacomo degli Incurabili (Saint James of the Incurables) was a historic hospital located in Rome. History The Hospital was built for the first time in 1349 by ...

, and site of an

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. It was built at the end of the

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by the architect Francesco Capriani at the behest of Cardinal

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, and named after the physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi.

Description

The entrance looks out onto

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and is characterised by a two-tiered symmetrical

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in renaissance style, bearing a Latin inscription commemorating its construction in 1593:

Ant. M. Salviatus Ep. incohavit idemq. Card. perfecit MDLXXXIV.

The interior has a circular plan with concentric wooden seats, the

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ceiling is decorated with frescoes.

History

It was built at the behest of Cardinal

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as part of the reconstruction of the Ospedale di San Giacomo degli Incurabili by the architect

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. The building was used as an

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by the decree of

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. It was named after the physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi, founder of the Lancisian Academy. It was the seat of surgical teaching in 1780, and seat of the chair of surgery established by Pius VII in 1815. Later it hosted conferences on medical and science topics. It was eventually used as morgue. In modern times it has also been called Aula di Malta.

Gallery

File:SanGiacomo TeatroAnatomico.png, Anatomical theatre File:SanGiacomo TeatroAnatomico Affreschi.png, Anatomical theatre: frescos

Bibliography

* * Enrico Fedele, L'Ospedale San Giacomo in Augusta tra storia, assistenza e cultura (PDF), in Annali Italiani di Chirurgia, vol. 74, n. 2, 2003. Retrieved 14 September 2020. *

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