Cesare Magati (Caesar Magatus). Line engraving.
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Caes. Magatus ol. in Ferr. lyc. pub. med. prof. mox p. Liberatus a Scand. sac. cap. aet. LXX. Caesaris effigiem Magati cerne decorum / Qua sacer in claustro descit esse senex / Qui fuerit juvenis medica dum claruit arte / Fas erit è scriptis nosse cuique suis.
The lettering around the portrait describes Magati as formerly professor of medicine at Ferrara university, and subsequently as a monk under the name Father Liberatus of Scandiano
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R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1867.1
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Wellcome Collection 6113i
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