Luciano Darderi

Gian Darderi/Mayo Clinic

The history of Italian men who became doctors is intertwined with the history of medicine.

Dr. Gian Darderi, a close friend of both Giuseppe Tucci and Federico Guli (see later), became a professor at the Mayo Clinic and served in a variety of prominent roles in the medical world across the United States, Mexico, and Italy. He was a longtime consultant to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he was responsible for training a huge number of scientists that later advanced science and medicine. In his free time, Darderi collected Italian and American foods, flowers and plants, and kept a home-to-home catalog of exotic specimens, the contents of which are given below:

TUBECOLONIUM (now referred to as an Australian fossil cactus) has the world's richest collection of lichens.

GEOGRAPHISTHOOD:

The true explanation for the global distribution of Australia's plants that eventually gave rise to the world's first nationalities of India, China, Japan, Korea, and the West Indies in the history of Indian culture is a modern scientific discovery. By looking closely at a particular type of lichen, the phylogenic results proved that it had originated not in a landmass nearby but rather in Australia itself.

What is so interesting about this discovery is that it proves that, no matter where they might have come from, the lichen are all related to the source of Australia's first population, which in turn, gave rise to the continent's indigenous cultural influences.

HONARIUM

The term "hontarium" is derived from the Latin word "hymenalis," which means "marriage" or "engagement" of the soul, and which later was used to refer to the actual marriage of Christians. While the word is still used to describe a small gothic wedding, most modern understanding defines the hymenal marriage as a legally binding union between a Christian and a non-Christian, where the first one (either the clergyman, or a bride/bridegroom) is a Christian by heart/conscience and the latter is a non-Christian. A variety of people of non-Christian faiths can be married into the clergy.