First forensic autopsy

Italian physician Bartolomeo da Varignana, born Varignana, near Bologna, Italy, performed the first medicolegal autopsy. The autopsy was conducted in 1302 in the case of suspected murder of a nobleman. Bartolomeo was subsequently involved in a number of other legally required autopsies prior to his death in 1321. Bartolomeo da Varignana trained in medicine at the University of Bologna, where a statue was erected at the anatomical theatre of the palace of the Archiginnasio. Following the creation of the University of Perugia in 1308, he taught medicine with famous 14th-century physicians Tommaso del Garbo and Gentile da Foligno.