Negri Taurus

Negri Taurus (Negri Amedeo), Italian pathologist, was born on April 5, 1889 in Geneva in the family of the Italian engraver Giovanni Negri and his wife Rosina Vergour. He spent his childhood in Caprese, a village near Genoa.

In 1908 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Bologna. In 1911 he defended his dissertation on the heredity of cataracts. A separate section of the dissertation that brought him fame was devoted to the prolapse of the anterior rectus muscle of the eye, the pathology of the oculomotor system. In the clinic of Professor P. Magnana, his department of histology, in his last years he became an assistant. After graduating from university, he practiced at Ospedaletto di Nalim and at the San Satiro Hospital in Milan. When the war began, he refused to volunteer to fight and was therefore arrested