Background
Vassalle, Mario was born on May 26, 1928 in Viareggio, Lucca, Italy. Son of Giuseppe and Antonietta (Vassalle) Vassalle. came to the United States, 1958.
(A collection of 1000 aphorisms and reflections in Italian...)
A collection of 1000 aphorisms and reflections in Italian and English From the Preface: Aphorisms are truths in a capsule, that are more penetrating because they are expressed concisely. Often, they identify an aspect of behavior that, being enunciated in its essentiality, immediately strikes the mind: we recognize truths that we had not formulated. For this reason, aphorisms contribute to clarify us to ourselves, since we all share in human nature and, therefore, are subject to its laws. The limitations of aphorisms are that they highlight isolated aspects of truth, without providing explanations or elaborations. In addition, the aphorisms have two important enemies. One is the temptation of saying brilliant but untrue things. This may result from demagoguery, which does not spare even some of the sharpest minds, who confuse aphorism with paradox. In that case, one's personality substitutes objectivity with the pleasure of a personal choice, aiming more to impress than to convince. The other is the deformation of the truth that derives from seeing everything according to our personal convictions. What we then say may still be the truth, but not the whole truth. A partial or isolated truth assumes a different connotation for not being viewed in a more general context and in the balance of other unstated truths. For example, one may only see the faults of human nature. But our faults may be a vital necessity for our humanity. The same can be said of virtues. But some concentrate on the former and some on the latter. These limitations notwithstanding, aphorisms explain to us that of which we have experience but not an explicit awareness, that which we never have analyzed and even less formally expressed. They are like lightnings that illuminate different aspects of the riddle of the mind, and therefore permit us to better know ourselves. Since we are what our mind is aware of, a better knowledge of ourselves increases our reality....
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(A collection of poems written in the Italian and English ...)
A collection of poems written in the Italian and English version by the author of another four books of poems. From the Introduction: "In the end, our emotions are like petals in the April breeze. As for the petals, we feel all their delicacy, while we perceive them, but very soon they disappear, swept away by the breeze of forgetfulness. We can only try to fix some of those feelings in words that reflect the echo of what we experience. Later on, reading those words, we renew a little of what we felt when we wrote them. Or, rather, we experience different feelings, evoked by words that reflect emotions lost forever. We are not allowed to return to the origin, since if an emotion can generate a poem, a poem can only generate different emotions in a self that is always different. However, this sequence (emotions, poems, different emotions) is still better than the fading away of our feelings in the whirlpool of our emotional restlessness, in the limitations of our memory, in the modifications of our sensitivity as we change with time and under the reciprocal influence between us and the environment in which we live. And you? Well, do we not participate in the same humanity? Do you not also feel at different times anxiety, solitude, melancholy, family affections, seduction of beauty, incoherence of your feelings, the fascination of nature, the consciousness of the inexorable passing of time? This is the reason why in these poems there is also something of yourself. You will find it in some poems and other people in other poems. But, precisely because the heart demands vigorously its share in the life of the mind, it is unlikely that you will not find something that speaks to your emotions according to your sensitivity."
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Vassalle, Mario was born on May 26, 1928 in Viareggio, Lucca, Italy. Son of Giuseppe and Antonietta (Vassalle) Vassalle. came to the United States, 1958.
Doctor of Medicine cum laude, U. Pisa, Italy, 1953; specialization in cardiology cum laude, U. Pisa, Italy, 1955; doctorate honoris causa, U. Ferrara, Italy, 1990.
Intern Istituto di Medicine and Cardiology, U. Pisa, 1953-1955;
assistant Istituto di Patologia Medica, U. Pisa, 1956-1958;
acting chief resident in medicine, French Hospital, New York City, 1958-1959;
trainee cardiovascular research & training program department physiology, Medical College Georgia, Augusta, 1959-1960;
postdoctoral fellow department physiology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1960-1961;
New York Heart Association fellow department physiology, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1961-1962;
instructor, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1962;
visiting assistant professor, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1964-1965;
assistant professor, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1965-1966;
associate professor, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1966-1971;
professor, State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, since 1971;
National Institutes of Health fellow Physiologisches Institut, U. Bern, Switzerland, 1962-1964. Visiting professor U. Ferrara, 1971, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1978, Catholic University Gemelli, Rome, 1984-1985, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1994. Associate editor American Journal Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 1976-1980.
Member editorial board Circulation Research, 1974-1980, European Journal Pharmacology, 1985-1990, Journal Electrocardiology, since 1985. Member editorial board New Trends in Arrhythmias, 1985-1996, associate editor, 1991-1996. Editorial consultant American Journal Physiology, Circulation, Science, Journal Molecular Cell Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research.
Consultant National Institutes of Health. Member National Institutes of Health Cardiopulmonary Study Section, 1981-1985, ad hoc member, 1988. Invited participant numerous conferences, symposiums and workshops.
(A collection of 1000 aphorisms and reflections in Italian...)
(A collection of poems written in the Italian and English ...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physiological Society, American Heart Association (county on basic science since 1969), New York Heart Association (board directors 1978-1984), New York Academy Sciences, Cardiac Muscle Society, Cardiac Electrophysiol. Group (president 1972-1973), International Study Group for Research in Cardiac Metabolism, Harvey Society, Mexico Society Cardiology (honorary), Sigma Xi (president Downstate Medical Center chapter 1984).
Married Anna Maria Petrucci. Children: Andrew G., Alessandra A., Massimo B., Roberto M., Francesca A.
