Gasparo Tagliacozzi

Gasparo Tagliacozzi (1546 – November 7, 1599) was an Italian surgeon.

Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna.

He studied at the University of Bologna under Jerome Cardan, taking his degree in philosophy and medicine at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed professor of surgery and afterwards of anatomy, and achieved notoriety at least, and the fame of a wonder-worker. He died at Bologna in 1599.

His principal work is entitled De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem Libri Duo (1597).