MUSITANO, CARLO. — Priest and physician, born in Castrovillari on 6 January 1635, died in Naples in 1714. He studied literature, philosophy, and theology at the Studium of the Centennali in his native city and was ordained a priest in 1658. After obtaining a degree in medicine, he devoted himself to experimental study of the science, with the permission of the Pope, publishing his scientific findings after twenty years of experiments. His innovative method gained wide resonance in Europe, furthered not a little by the vehement invective of the Galenists of the Sacermentian School. His numerous and voluminous works were printed and reprinted in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Holland.
The principal ones are: *Pyrotechnia sophica rerum naturalium* (Naples 1683, Cologne 1700, Venice 1700); *De morbis mulierum* (Naples 1683, Venice 1709, Cologne 1709; Italian trans. by his nephew Giuseppe M., and German trans., Leipzig 1743); *Trutina medica antiquorum et recentiorum* (Venice 1688); *De morbis infantium et puerorum* (Cologne 1688); *De lue venerea libri quatuor* (Naples 1689, Cologne 1698; Lyon 1698; French trans., Trevoux 1711); *De morbo gallico* (Naples 1689; Italian trans., ibid. 1697, 1707); *Opera medica chimico-practica* (Cologne 1700); *Pyrotonia seu tractatus de febribus* (ibid. 1700, Venice 1701, Amsterdam 1704). M.’s *Opera omnia* appeared in 2 vols. in Genoa 1716 and Venice 1738.