Castore Durante practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Castore Durante as Italian physician, botanist, poet (1529-1590).
Castore Durante was born at Gualdo Tadino in 1529. His recorded nationality is Papal States.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Papal States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Castore Durante died in 1590, aged 61. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
