Pietro Ramaglia was born in this house of Ripabottoni (corso Vittorio Emanuele, 48), on the 31st of March 18021, as remembered by an old memorial tablet on the facade, where this simple italian inscription can be read: “IN QUESTA CASA/ NACQUE/ PIETRO RAMAGLIA/ SOMMO CLINICO/ DELL’ATENEO NAPOLETANO./ IL MUNICIPIO DI RIPABOTTONI/ POSE/ LUGLIO 1906″ (In this house/ was born/ Pietro Ramaglia/ the highest clinician/ of the neapolitan university./ The town council of Ripabottoni made/ July 1906”).
He lived here until he left Ripabottoni to go studying in Naples2. After his graduation he became one of the most important doctor of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies becoming the personal doctor of the King Ferdinando II3.
- Photos and main text by Giuseppe Pallotta and Marco Mattaroccia (December 2017) courtesy of Proloco Ripabottoni
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Bibliography
- Italo Testa, “Le grandi figure della Medicina Molisana”, Palladino Editore, Campobasso 2010, p 65-80