Cesare Magati or Caesar Magatus (14 July 1577 – 9 September 1647) was an Italian physician and professor of medicine.

He is known chiefly from his book De rara medicatione Vulnerum (1616) where he promoted the idea of natural processes in wound healing.

Magati was born in Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, in the landed family of Giorgio and Laura Mattacoda.

He joined the Capuchin order as a lay brother in 1618 and took his vows in Ravenna the next year, and going by the name of Padre Liberato da Scandiano.

[2] The principles outlined by Magati in his De rara medicatione vulnerum excited a great deal of debate: they were confirmed by the renowned physician Ludovico Settala (1552–1633) but were challenged mostly by Daniel Sennert.