to be an exceptional student of anatomy. While still a student, he was awarded a Chair of Sophistics at the university. In 1542, he returned briefly to Venice to assist his mentor, Lonigo.

Academic career

Realdo Colombo studied philosophy in Milan, and then he trained to be a surgeon for several years under a Venetian named Giovanni Antonio Plato, also known as Lonigo or Leonicus. By 1538, during the years of Andreas Vesalius, Columbo had arrived at Padua,

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