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History of the University of Siena and

of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department

 

  • 1240. Dates from this year the first news of the existence of a "provincial" office, funded by the City. Together with the oldest law school, there were also a grammar school and a medical school.
  • 1357. Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg provided that arise in Siena a Studium Generale «in iure civili et canonico et medicinis, philosophia, loyca, gramatica et quavis alia facultate».
  • 1591. The figure of Rector was established, elected both by schoolchildren and city magistrates. 
  • 1738. The economist Pompeo Neri was commissioned by the Lorraine government to form a plan for developing the University by the organizational and cultural profile and proposed a reform to enhance its scientific level.
  • 1741. Pompeo Neri in order to renew the teaching of anatomical teaching with the introduction of experimental method, called the Rimini medical doctor Giovanni Bianchi; itwas also made mandatory the inclusion of teachers in the Fisiocritici Academy (founded in 1691) to create a strong scientific collaboration with that institution.
  • 1745. The first official teaching of obstetrics in Siena, was entrusted to Giacomo Bartolomei.
  • 1808. With the French invasion, the University of Siena was closed and was turned into an official School of Medicine depending on the University of Pisa. It was reopened again in 1814.
  • 1845. The Chair of Obstetrics is established.
  • 1851. Higher education in the Granducato was reorganized into a single Tuscany University, called Etruscan Studio, and divided into locations of Pisa and Siena. In Siena there were only two faculties, Law and Theology, while in Pisa remained active faculties of Philosophy and Philology, Medicine, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. With the annulment of the decree of 1851 the School of Medicine and Surgery was re-activated in Siena.
  • 1876. It was founded the School of Obstetrics, necessarily linked to a maternity home or to a hospital with at least 15 beds for pregnant women.
  • 1881. The Obstetric Institute includes the following courses: obstetrics and pertinent clinic, gynecology.
  • 1893. The Obstetric Institute of the Univerisity of Siena is declared Obstetrics and Gynecology Institute.
  • 1930-31. Francesco Spirito aimed to establish an advanced School in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the first school of specialization for physicians, and single for a long time, in the University of Siena. It was a 4-year school and issued the diploma of "obstetrician-gynecologist specialist".
  • 2001. Establishment of the Degree Course in Obstetrics with course coordinator Felice Petraglia (2001-2004) and Maria Grazia Ricci (2005-2007).

  

List of teachers in obstetrics in Siena teaching:

 

Jacomo Bartolomei 1774-1775

Alessandro Felici 1776-1778

Vincenzo Lanini 1779

Giovanni Niccolò Semenzi 1780-1788

Anastasio Gambini 1789-1807

Giovanni Bianchi 1807-1808

Anastasio Gambini 1808-1825

Giovan Battista Vannini 1826-1834

Vincenzo Centofanti 1835-1840

Aloisio Capezzi 1841-1851

Vincenzo Centofanti 1852-1858

Carlo Minati 1859-1864

Cesare Zanobini 1865-1866

Emilio Falaschi 1867-1909

Arturo Guzzoni degli Ancarani 1910-1914

Alessendro Bertino 1915-1920

Ercole Cova 1921-1923

Paolo Gaifami 1924

Cesare Merletti 1925

Cesare Decio 1926-1927

Francesco Spirito 1928 al 1955
Dean of the Medical Faculty of Siena from 1932 to 1934 and then to in the academic years 1938-1939. Rector of the University of Siena from 1939 to 1943.

Pompeo Spoto 1955-1964.

Alberto Centaro 1964-1967

Piero Fioretti  1968

Guelfo Sani 1969-1975

Norberto D’Antona 1975-1980

Maria Grazia Ricci 1981-1982

Norberto D’Antona 1982-2000

Felice Petraglia 2000-