Mariano Santo 5759429 222459862 2008-06-29T13:15:11Z SpellingBot 6773085 studing → studying [[Image:Libellus Aureus.jpg|thumb|[[Proem]] of the ''Libellus Aureus'']] '''Mariano Santo''' ([[Barletta]], [[1488]]-[[Rome]], [[1577]]) was an important surgeon of the 16th century. He was born in Barletta in 1488 and went in Rome in 1510 for studying medicine. He became surgeon and started to teach in [[Bologna University]]. He returned in Baletta in 1520 for the death of his father, in 1524 married Maddalena Braccio (he had 4 sons with her), in 1526 went in [[Milan]] and in 1527 in [[Ragusa]] (today [[Dubrovnik]]). He operated on battlefields during the war between [[Austria]] and [[Ottomans]], and finally went to [[Venice]]. His writings include the ''Artium et medicine'' and the very important ''Libellus Aureus de lapide a vesica per incisionem extrahendo'' and the ''De lapide renum''. During his life, he diffused in [[Europe]] a new surgical technique called "sectio mariana", with the use of a new tool, the "esploratorium", for the estraction of renal calculi. He died in Rome in 1577 and was buried in S. Maria Minerva church. {{DEFAULTSORT:Santo, Mariano}} [[Category:1488 births]] [[Category:1577 deaths]] {{Italy-bio-stub}} [[it:Mariano Santo]] [[ro:Mariano Santo]]