Presentation of the First Comprehensive Book on Cav. Dr. Pietro Ramaglia in Ripabottoni

Presentation of the first comprehensive book on Cav. Dr. Pietro Ramaglia, Knight Grand Cross of the Sacred Military Order of Saint George, by Prof. Gabriella Paduano and Father Gabriele Tamilia sponsored by the Abruzzo and Molise Delegation of the SMOSCG (Photo courtesy of Prof. Gabriella Paduano)

In the splendid location of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Ripabottoni, Campobasso the master work of the noted architect Ferdinando Sanfelice, and a national landmark, on the 22 July the presentation of the new book, Pietro Ramaglia (1802-1875). Il medico molisano fondatore della Moderna Scuola Medica Napoletana was held.  This was the first presentation of the book fresh from the presses, in the town where Dr. Ramaglia was born and in the church where he was baptized.

In an atmosphere which speaks of the glorious Neapolitan 18th Century, surrounded by the works of Francesco Solimena and his Molisan pupil Paolo Gamba, 220 years after his birth the authors Mons. Gabriele Tamilia and Dr. Gabriella Paduano have brought back from oblivion the great clinician, credited with founding modern medicine in Europe and who was the personal doctor of King Ferdinando II of Bourbon of the Two Sicilies. Cav. Prof. Avv. Franco Ciufo, Delegate for Abruzzo and Molise of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, to which Ramaglia belonged and which has sponsored the publication of the book, presided over the ceremony.

After the greetings of the Mayor of Ripabottoni, Orazio Civetta, the authors discussed their findings with a distinguished panel which included Mons. Gianfranco De Luca, Bishop of the Dioceses of Termoli- Larino; Prof. Italo Testa, former head physician of the Cardarelli Hospital of Campobasso, a well known connoisseur of the history of Molisan and Neapolitan medicine; Dr. Carolina De Vincenzo, representative of the Order of Physicians of Campobasso; Mons. Claudio Palumbo, Bishop of the Dioceses of Trivento; and Cav. Prof. Avv. Franco Ciufo contextualized Dr. Ramaglia in the legendary golden age in the southern Kingdom which produced so many scientists in all fields, especially in medicine and treatment assistance with the establishment of many well known hospitals.

On a sweltering July afternoon, a church was filled with people to remember that young man from Ripabottoni, a small town in Molise, who set out to Naples, where he was the head clinician of the Royal Incurabili Hospital, a scientist, founder of a School of Medicine, physician of the Royal House and personal physician to King Ferdinando II who made him Cavaliere di Grazia del Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio, but above all, a pious and generous man.

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