Giambattista Canano

Giambattista or Giovanni Battista Canano (born 1515, died 29 January 1579[1]) was a physician and anatomist, active mainly in his native Ferrara.

His aristocratic family, of Greek ancestry, produced a number of physicians and scholars.

[4] He published one volume of his own writings on anatomy, Musculorum humani corporis picturata dissectio, illustrated by Gerolamo da Carpi.

He may have been discouraged by the great success of Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, which covered the same subjects Canano was working on.

[5] However Canano's book was highly original, containing the first anatomical drawings of the lumbricals and interossei of the hand, and the first description and drawing of the palmaris brevis muscle and the oblique head of the adductor pollicis muscle, which was not observed by Vesalius and was unknown to Galen.