(Rome 1921-Ischia 1994). Lecturer in Medical Hydrology at the University La Sapienza of Rome, was a leading figure in the field of spa island and as a director of the Centro Studi P. Malcovati of Lacco Ameno and medical director of spas in Ischia, Lacco Ameno and Casamicciola, both for his publications on aspects of the thermal waters of Ischia, including The Island of Ischia, health and beauty guide thermal treatments (1991), also translated into German. He has also published My Yemen, an outspoken autobiographical insight, a natural flavor Roman, as he used to say, fourteen years old Yemeni (1955-1968).