Note 17 — IX MONDINO AND THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF BOLOGNA
Reading edition
Pilcher (loc. cit.) tells of her tomb. I venture to change his translation of the inscription in certain unimportant particulars. He says:
"We know the very place where she was buried in front of the Madonna delle Lettre in the Church of San Pietro e Marcellino of the Hospital of Santa Maria de Mareto, where her associate, Agenio, mourning and inconsolable, placed a tablet with this inscription:
D . O . M . Vrceo . Contenti Alexandrae . Galinae . Pvellae . Persicetanae Penicillo . Egregiae . Ad . Anatomen . Exhibendam Et . Insignissimi . Medici . Mundini . Lucii Paucis . Comparandae . Discipulae . Cineres Carnis . Hic . Expectant . Resurrectionem Vixit . Ann . XIX . Obiit . Studio . Absunta Die XXVI Martii . A . S . MCCCXXVI Otto . Agenius . Lustrulanus . Ob . Eam . Demptam Sui . Potiori . Parte . Spoliatus . Sodali . Eximiae Ac . De . Se . Optime . Meritae . Inconsolabilis . M . P .
This inscription may be translated as follows:
In this urn enclosed The ashes of the body of Alexandra Giliani, a maiden of Periceto; Skilful with her brush in anatomical demonstrations And a disciple equalled by few, Of the most noted physician, Mundinus of Luzzi, Await the resurrection. She lived 19 years: she died consumed by her labors March 26, in the year of grace 1326. Otto Agenius Lustrulanus, by her taking away Deprived of his better part, his excellent companion, Deserving of the best, Has erected this tablet."