Viterbo – Culture – Presentation this Friday, at 4.30 pm, in the conference room – Lieutenant Luigino Chizzi, Unuci president, will be the moderator
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Viterbo – (sil.co.) – “Scalpel on the attack. Frescoes of the history of medicine in wartime”. It is the title of the latest literary effort by the neurosurgeon Carlo Pizzoni, the doctor from Belcolle with a passion for the scalpel and writing. The volume will be presented this Friday, May 17, at 4.30 pm, in the conference room of the Palazzo dei Papi, in Piazza San Lorenzo, in Viterbo.
Lieutenant Luigino Chizzi, president of Unuci Viterbo, the national union of retired officers in Italy, will act as moderator. It thus turns out that Carlo Pizzoni, in addition to being a neurosurgeon and writer, is also a Co.Sa.Cong. medical captain.
“One chapter – explains the author – is dedicated to the biographies of the many Italian doctors who distinguished themselves for their activities during the wars of the 20th century”.
“Nowadays the limit between the ability to destroy the enemy and the self-destruction of the entire planet is truly thin, as demonstrated by the current war in Ukraine – underlines Pizzoni – for the military, war is an art, comparable to architecture, to sculpture and also to medicine. Taking care of one’s sick fellow man is, fortunately, another characteristic, this time positive, inherent in humans, as in many other animals.”
“The human being – he continues – has been, over the centuries, the protagonist of great undertakings; starting from the discovery of fire and the construction of the wheel, there has been constant technological progress, which has made him the master of the Earth. In addition to technique, man was the creator of great acts of heroism and altruism. Furthermore, we were capable of creating beauty, poetry, literature, music, civilization. Yet, deep inside us, we hide a monster. A being capable of hating, envying, betraying, killing his own kind. One of the characteristics that distinguishes us is precisely that of declaring war on our neighbors. War is inherent in man, and the best discoveries have been used to fuel it, to make it increasingly effective in terms of mortality.”
“Over the centuries – he says – these two human peculiarities, war and medicine, have intersected with each other. Almost paradoxically, the most destructive activity has always fueled an innovative spirit in the most beneficial one. Wars have always presented doctors with new problems to solve and civil society, in peacetime, has then benefited from the solutions found.”
“At the same time – he explains – during war, it was possible to try and develop new techniques and ideas, developed in periods of understanding between peoples. The story of this strange alliance, between battles and cures, begins in Mesopotamia, over 6000 years ago, and then continues in Egypt and Greece. The excursion continues with the Roman Empire, the decline of the Middle Ages and the new push in the Renaissance. And then the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, up to the Great War and the Second World War.”
“In every war – he concludes – military medicine made progress to make aid for wounded soldiers quicker and more effective and to reduce losses”.
Articles: “Happy we die”, honorable mention for the anthology of the neurosurgeon-writer Carlo Pizzoni – Happy we die” by Carlo Pizzoni, presentation in the village of master Geppetto – In San Pellegrino the exchange of “literary” greetings by the doctor Carlo Pizzoni – “Happy we die”, a journey through the stories of the neurosurgeon-writer Carlo Pizzoni – “Diversamente killer”, the latest noir story by the neurosurgeon Carlo Pizzoni – Anthology of noir stories at the papal palace with the neurosurgeon Carlo Pizzoni – “Fulmineo and powerful” and “Grandfather’s war”, two new awards for Carlo Pizzoni – The neurosurgeon Carlo Pizzoni in noir shades in the anthology “The bad road” – “Baci spinati”, the fantasy story by Doctor Carlo Pizzoni inspired by the Coronavirus – ” Literary alcove” is the new goal of the doctor-writer Carlo Pizzoni – “’The mummy of Bomarzo’, a tangle of passions and revenge in 19th century Tuscia”
May 16, 2024
