 After schooling with the Jesuits, Francesco Redi attended the University of Pisa from where he obtained his doctoral degrees in medicine and philosophy in 1647, at the age of 21.He constantly moved, to Rome, Naples, Bologna, Padua, and Venice, and finally settled in Florence in 1648.Here he was registered at the "Collegio Medico" where he served at the Medici Court as both the head physician and superintendent of the ducal apothecary to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his successor, Cosimo III.