In 1563 Italian physician and anatomist Bartolomeo Eustachi
(Eustachius) published his Opuscula anatomica in Venice with
annotations by his relative and disciple, Pier Matteo Pini.
Opuscula anatomica includes 8 engraved full-page copperplate
text illustrations probably drawn by Eustachi and Pini, and
engraved by Giulio de Musi, probably a relation of Agostino de'
Musi (Agostino Veneziano). The illustrations are on the
unnumbered pages between pp. 1-20 (first series). Pini also
prepared the 168 pages of annotations to Eustachi's anatomical
treatises from the writings of Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen and
other authorities. These were published at the end of the book.
Pini's published dedication of these Annotationes to Eustachi is
dated July, 1561. Written during 1561 and 1562, Eustachi's
Opuscula consists of a group of anatomical treatises on the
kidneys (De renum structura), the organ of hearing (De auditus
organis), the venous system (De vena quae azygos graecis
dicitur) and the teeth (De dentibus), which he