Early Years
Malpighi was born on March 10, 1628 at Crevalcore near Bologna, Italy. The son of well-to-do parents, Malpighi was educated in his native city, entering the University of Bologna at the age of 17. In a posthumous work delivered and dedicated to the Royal Society in London in 1697, Malpighi says he completed his grammatical studies in 1645, at which point he began to apply himself to the study of Peripatetic Philosophy. He completed these studies about 1649, where at the persuasion of his mother Frances Natalis he began to study physics. When his parents and grandmother became ill, he returned to his family home near Bologna to care for them.
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