Francesco Durante (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian politician and surgeon
Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1844
Place of Birth: Letojanni, Sicily, Italy
Date of Death: 02-Oct-1934
Profession: politician, surgeon
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Francesco Durante (surgeon)
- Francesco Durante was an Italian politician and surgeon. He was the son of Domenico Durante, mayor of Gallodoro (Messina) from 1880 to 1884.
- The education of Francesco was entrusted to Don Di Blasi; his father wanted to see him graduate in engineering but one day he went to the university of medicine in Messina with his friend, who was studying here.
- The teacher, amazed at his comments and at his bent, urged him to study medicine.
- So he started to study medicine in Messina, but he graduated in Naples in 1864.
- He moved to Rome in 1872 after a lot of travels around Europe.
- He projected and founded with Guido Baccelli the general hospital Policlinico Umberto I in Rome in 1872.
- Durante became Senator of the kingdom of Italy in the 16th Legislature.
- He was one of the first surgeons in Italy and in the world to successfully remove brain tumors.
- During the First World War, he gave his all and besides avoided the mutilation of thousands of soldiers.
- In 1908 he moved to Messina, just devastated by an earthquake, with a load of medical materials and with a group of volunteers and developed surgical pavilions.
- He followed Hippocrates' doctrine; doctor has to heal and soothe without profit purposes.
- He became president of the Order of Surgeons in Italy.
- In 1919 he decided to leave Rome and to return definitively to Sicily.
- He retired to private life in his home in Letojanni where he died on 2 October 1934. The "poor" in Letojanni, erected a monument, unveiled during a solemn ceremony in honor of Durante himself in 1923.
- It is a bronze statue by the sculptor from Palermo Ettore Ximenes, donated to the residents of Letojanni and that is located in what is today “Piazza Durante”.
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