Marcos Christino Fioravanti was an Italian surgeon who served in the Royal British Navy and co-founded the town of Santo Antônio da Patrulha in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Background
Fioravanti was born in 1775 on the Ionic Island of Santa Maura, in what was then the Republic of Venice, to Ângelo Fioravanti. On June 17, 1804 in Osório he married Emerenciana Maria of Jesus Joaquina Bittencourt, daughter of Francisco Bittencourt and of Dona Ana of Jesus, according to the register of the N.S. of Conceição Church.
Education
He graduated in Medicine and went to serve in the Napoleonic Wars as a doctor in the Royal British Navy.
Career
In 1803, when serving as the surgeon of the HMS Seahorse, he disembarked in Brazil at the town of the Desterro in (what today is known as Florianópolis), and from there went on to settle in Osório in Rio Grande do Sul. in Liv. o1, fls. 16 of marriages. They had 11 children, the eldest was Candica Inácia Christina Fioravanti, born on March 15, 1805, followed by Marcos Christino Patrulhense Fioravanti (b 1807), Anselmo Christino Fioravanti (b 1811), Antônio Ângelo Christino Fioravanti (b 1813), Maximilia Jônia Christina Fioravanti (b 1816), Anatácia Fioravanti (b 1817), Luiza Fioravanti (b 1820), et cetera On December 7, 1809, after being approved in an exam in Brazil, his letter of Surgeon was recognized and confirmed.
The registers show that on April 3, 1811, Fioravanti co-founded the Town of Santo Antônio da Patrulha.
There he built the first two-story house in the town, where he lived until 1856, when he sold all his properties and moved with his family to São Borja. He built a Baroque style fountain that supplied water to the city.
The Imperial coat of arms was placed on this fountain in 1826, when the Emperor Dom Pedro I drank from it during his visit to the town with the Imperial Army. On July 2 of 1854 Fioravanti was favored by the Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, with the officership of the Order of the Rose
Marcos Christino Fioravanti died in São Paulo Borja, RS in 1862, at the age of 87 years
Descendants of Marcos Christino Fioravanti are now spread through the southern states of Brazil, neighbouring countries of Brazil, United States of America and Canadá.