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"What's the most important thing for you?". "Life...life...and still life. In all its shapes and expressions, in all its contradictions like ilness, pain, suffering. Life as an emanation of God, life as creation, life as gift, wealth, miracle; life as time with its roots in the timeless and its branches in the infinity of the mystery of God"

( Giancarlo Rastelli)

Giancarlo Rastelli was born in Pescara on the 25th of June in the 1933 and died in Rochester on February 2nd in 1970, was a cardio-surgeon, an Italian researcher, inventor of the Rastelli 1, Rastelli 2 techniques.

Childhood and private life
Giancarlo was born in Pescara one the 25th of June in 1933. His father, Vito Rastelli, was a journalist and his mother Bianchi Luisa, was a primary school teacher; He had a sister, Rosangela, younger than him, she was an English teacher and social worker.

He was a very sensible child, creative, brave, full of imagination and fantasy, he had always had a sense of equity since he was very young. In the first period of his adolescence he lived in Pescara, Reggio Emilia, Sondrio and Parma; this last city has an important value in his life since here he met Padre Molin Mosè Pradel, thanks to whom he experienced the meeting with Christ for the first time in his life. God, The Christ ( he would always name him with the article) was something really important for Giancarlo.

He had a lot of passions among which ping pong, the love for travelling, fishing, he used to spend three months during summer at Polesine Parmense in his grandparents house and another important passion was his interest in nature, considered as an expression of God and as a consequence he loved trekking and skiing. But certainly the biggest passion was the love for mankind.

He married on August 10th in 1964 Anna Anghileri of Sondrio who had met while skiing in Bormio. On July in 1965 Antonella Rastelli was born; now she’s a Golden doctor at St. Louis Missouri of the hospital of Washington.

An important bond that characterised Giancarlo's life was his friendship with Vincenzo Ferioli, they met at the university and the similarity of their lives will still continue after the death of these two friends since they received the same international recognitions and both of them were buried in the university chapel in Parma, ad honorem.

First steps into Medicine