V-2nd C4 The Art of Tagliacozzi

[Dave Monroe]

"Schoenmaker, being conservative, referred to his profession as the
art of Tagliacozzi." (V., Ch. 4, p. 99)


Schoenmaker

Schoenmaker, Dr. Shale

45; German: "beauty maker"; plastic surgeon who performs Esther's nose
job; in World War I, 97; Esther's nose job, 102; 294; 296

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=S

Possible source of name?

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Thelma_Schoonmaker


"the art of Tagliacozzi"

Tagliacozzi (1546-99)
97; An Italian surgeon, he developed a technique for repairing injured
noses by transplanting skin from the arm

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T

"Gasparo [sic?] Tagliacozzi was the sixteenth-century inventor of the
'Italian method' of using skin from the upper arm to perform plastic
surgery on the nose ...."  --Grant, Companion, p. 62

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/

Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1546 – November 7, 1599) was an Italian surgeon.

Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna.

He studied at the University of Bologna under Gerolamo Cardano and
others, and, at the age of twenty-four, earned his degree in
philosophy and medicine. First he was appointed professor of surgery
and later was appointed professor of anatomy. He became notorious in
his field and is considered the father of Plastic Surgery. He
continued the work of the sicilian Surgeon Gustavo Branca and his son
Antonio (who lived in Catania in the 1400s), developing the so called
"italian method" of plastic surgery which was radically different from
the "indian method" described in other texts, being much more
practical....

[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasparo_Tagliacozzi

This page lists items in the database related to italian surgeon
Gaspare Tagliacozzi (b. Bologna, Italy, 27 february 1545; d. Bologna,
Italy, 7 November 1599)

http://himetop.wikidot.com/gaspare-tagliacozzi


"a certain sentimental inertia"

2nd "sentimental" in two pages ... but why so, why "never quite up to
date"?  "Conservative"?


"the Tagliacozzi look"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tagliacozzi_Portrait.jpg

Gaspare Tagliacozzi's portrait

http://himetop.wikidot.com/gaspare-tagliacozzi-s-portrait