Statua, realizzata da Alessandro Vittoria, raffigurante Tommaso Rangoni e posizionata sul portale d'ingresso della chiesa di San Zulian, la cui facciata è stata realizzata da Jacopo Sansovino.

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Statue by Alessandro Vittoria, depicting Tommaso Rangoni and placed on the entrance portal of the church of San Zulian, whose façade was designed by Jacopo Sansovino.

Tommaso Giannotti, born in Ravenna in 1493, was a physician, astronomer and patron of the arts. In Venice, he contributed to public health, financed architectural works and promoted culture, leaving an important book heritage. He died in 1577, wishing his library to be open to the public.

A dispenser of hygienic and dietary advice for prolonging life up to the age of 120, with him for the first time in Venice a benefactor was allowed to worship his own person.

Tommaso Giannotti was born on 16 August 1493 in Ravenna into a bourgeois family that allowed him to study mathematics, literature and astrology in his home city and to continue with a university degree in'artibus et medicinae' in Bolognain 1516; the humanistic nicknames of'Philologus' or in its Latin form'Janothus' date back to these years, which were then replaced by the more general suffix'Rhavennas' from 1525 onwards.Thanks to the support of Cardinal Domenico Grimani, the young physician Giannotti moved to Rome where he taught sophistry, philosophy and astronomy; he later taught in Bologna

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