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e became associated with Borelli, who, as an older man, 

 assisted him in many ways. They united in some work, and 

 together they discovered the spiral character of the heart 

 muscles. But the climate of Pisa did not agree with him, 

 and after three years he returned, in 1659, to teach in the 

 University of Bologna, and applied himself assiduously to 

 anatomy. 



Here his fame was in the ascendant, notwithstanding the 

 machinations of his enemies and detractors, led by Sbaraglia. 

 He was soon (1662) called to Messina to follow the famous 

 Castelli. After a residence there of four years he again 

 returned to Bologna, and as he was now thirty-eight years 

 of age, he thought it time to retire to his villa near the city 

 in order to devote himself more fully to anatomical studies, 

 but he continued his lectures in the university, and also his 

 practice of medicine. 



Honors at Home and Abroad. Malpighi's talents were 

 appreciated even at home. The University of Bologna hon- 

 ored him in 1686 with a Latin eulogium; the city erected a 

 monument to his memory; and after his death, in the city of 

 Rome, his body was brought to Bologna and interred with 

 great pomp and ceremony. At the three hundredth anniver- 

 sary of his death, in 1894, a festival was held in Bologna, 

 his monument was unveiled, and a book of addresses by 

 eminent anatomists was published in his honor. 



During his lifetime he received recognition also from 

 abroad, but that is less remarkable. In 1668 he was elected 

 an honorary member of the Royal Society of London. He 

 was very sensible of this honor; he kept in communication 

 with the society; he presented them with his portrait, and 

 deposited in their archives the original drawings illustrating 

 the anatomy of the silkworm and the development of the chick. 



In 1691 he was taken to Rome by the newly elected pope, 

 Innocent XII, as his personal physician, but under these new 



