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Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri

D. Martinelli, Portrait of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri. Pisa, Palazzo Alla Giornata
D. Martinelli, Portrait of Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri. Pisa, Palazzo Alla Giornata

Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri (Montefoscoli, 3 February 1772 – Orzignano, 6 September 1826) was the oldest son of the physician Francesco Vaccà Berlinghieri, a professor at the University of Pisa, and considered the father of the Pisan surgical medical school.
In 1809 Andrea was formally named chief physician of the Grand Duchess Élisa, who had already been his patient for quite some time. On 11 August 1814, two years after the death of his brother, Leopoldo, Andrea married his sister–in–law, Sophie Caudeiron (1768–1809), who had remained a widow, in the church of San Nicola in Pisa. Shortly after the marriage, the illustrious Pisan physician went to Trieste to assist with the delivery of the former queen of Westphalia, Catherine of Wüttemberg, the second wife of Jérôme Bonaparte. Also present in Trieste to assist her sister–in–law was Princess Élisa.
Andrea remained in the faithful service of the Bonaparte family even during the years of the Restoration, and so in 1817 he would be cited among those Napoleonists who frequented the Caffè dell’Ussero on the banks of the Arno.
The brilliant career of the physician and university professor Andrea Vaccà is well–documented and can be reconstructed through the documentary evidence kept in the Pisan historical archive at the Palazzo Toscanelli (University Archive).