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Renaiss Q. 2007 Summer;60(2):434-63.
Public anatomies have been characterized as carnivalesque events: like the Carnival, they took place in January and February and celebrated bodily existence. However, in late sixteenth-century Padua and its famous anatomy theater, the annual, public anatomy was a formal, ceremonial event. Girolamo Fabrici, the leading anatomist, gave a philosophical presentation of his research, a presentation organized by topic rather than by the gradual dissection of corpses. For medical students, the annual anatomy and the theater itself encouraged silence, obedience, and docility, reinforcing the virtues that permeated the late humanist environment of Renaissance Padua.
就像狂欢节一样，它们在一月和二月举行，颂扬身体的存在。然而，在16世纪后期的帕多瓦及其著名的解剖剧场，一年一度的公共解剖是一个正式的仪式性活动。杰出的解剖学家吉罗拉莫·法布里奇对他的研究进行了一场哲学性的展示，这场展示是按照主题而非尸体的逐步解剖来组织的。对于医学生来说，一年一度的解剖以及解剖剧场本身都倡导安静、服从和温顺，强化了弥漫在文艺复兴时期帕多瓦后期人文主义环境中的美德。
