BELLINI, LORENZO, a celebrated physician and anatomist, born at Florence A.D. 1643. After completing his studies in general literature, he went to Pisa, where, assisted by the generosity of the grand duke Ferdinand II., he studied under two of the most learned men of that age, Oliva and Borelli, the former of whom instructed him in natural philosophy, and the latter in mechanics. He likewise studied medicine under Redi, and mathematics under Marchetti. At the early age of twenty he was chosen professor of philosophy
at Pisa, but did not long continue in this office; for he had acquired such a reputation for skill in anatomy, that the grand duke procured him a professorship in that science, and was himself a frequent auditor at his lectures. Bellini died in 1703, in the sixtieth year of his age. His works were publicly read and explained at Leyden by our countryman Dr. Pitcairn, professor of physics there.