Lorenzo Bellini

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Lorenzo Bellini (3 September 1643 – 8 January 1704) was an Italian physician and anatomist from Florence. By about age 20 he began studying the kidneys and described the papillary ducts, now known as Bellini's ducts, in his 1662 work Exercitatio Anatomica de Structura Usu Renum. He became a professor of theoretical medicine at Pisa, soon moving to the chair of anatomy. After about thirty years in Pisa, he was invited to Florence, where he served as physician to the Grand Duke Cosimo III and as senior consulting physician to Pope Clement XI. His collected works were published in Venice in 1708.