Luca Tozzi

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Luca Tozzi (21 November 1638 – 11 March 1717) was an Italian physician who worked in Rome and Naples. He was born in Frignano, near Aversa, and earned his medical degree in 1659. He published observations about the Comet of 1664. In Naples he joined the Accademia dei Discordanti. He served as a substitute teacher at the University of Naples and became a professor of institutional medicine in 1694. In 1696 he was appointed chief papal physician and a professor of medicine at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, replacing Marcello Malpighi. After Pope Innocent XII died, he returned to Naples and became the leading physician of the Kingdom of Naples under Charles II. His writings were published in 1721 in Venice.