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Anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri stated that he would like to imagine a Calabrian health commissioner. “Perhaps a Calabrian who emigrated from hunger, who participated in contests in the north because he did not want to participate in contests diverted by the mafia to the south, a university professor.
And to the assertion of the magistrate famous for having always been a sworn enemy of ‘Ndranghetisti and fixers, replied the great actress. Monica guerritore, in your public profile. What he writes is truly significant: “Nicola Gratteri spoke of extraordinary doctors who left a small town in Calabria and became luminaries of medicine and my grandfather: Francesco Pentimalli comes to mind. Born in Palmi to a very poor family, he studied in Naples and was sent to Germany. You feel that the inflammation may turn into sarcomas (chicken sarcoma). He creates the Regina Elena in Rome, the first cancer research institute and directs it. He was the only European oncologist who was called to the bedside of Evita Perón, who suffered from leukemia. Even today in Palmi they make a gesture of greeting passing in front of his house … he treated all his fellow townspeople for free. He was my grandfather and he was from Calabria ».
It is true: the hospital bears his name in Palmi and is fondly remembered by the population. “A man of history”, comments the mayor of the Calabrian town, Giuseppe Ranuccio, “of which to be proud”. Monica Guerritore has always held a special place in her heart for the city that gave birth to her grandfather and where her mother lived in her last period of life.
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