ST URBAIN, Ferdinand de: Italy, ca. 1710, Bronze, 36 mm
Obv: Bust (l)    IO. HIERONYMVS. SBARALEA. DOC. COLLEG. ET. BONON. ANAT. LECT. EMERIT
Rev: Tree with hanging vine    INVTILES AMPVTANS
Ref: Forrer V, p. 312 # 95

Giovanni Girolamo (Hieronymus) Sbaralea (Sbaraglia) (1641-1710) was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna. A competent anatomist and one of a long line of intellectuals connected with the institution, for around forty years he had held the chair of medicine and anatomy at the University of Bologna. He was one of the protagonists of the famous anatomist, Marcello Malpighi. This antagonism was not only scientific but also personal, as in 1659 the brother of Malpighi killed a brother of Sbaralea.

On June 8, 1710 Girolamo Sbaraglia died in Bologna at the age of sixty-nine. This medal likely commemorates his death.