Carlo Rimbotti

Carlo Rimbotti (1518–1591) was a Florentine physician and a member of the Accademia Fiorentina, a prominent philosophical and literary society during the Renaissance.

Rimbotti studied medicine at the University of Bologna and in January 1542 he was admitted to the Accademia, where he participated actively and delivered three public lectures. The last of them, delivered in December of that year, discussed a sonnet by Petrarch.

He became a practicing physician in 1543 and five years later, at the age of 30, he posed for Francesco Salviati, a fellow member of the Florentine Academy. His oil on wood portrait, completed by the Mannerist master in 1548, depicts him holding a small book next to his heart,