his teachings in the Ospedale degli Incurabili. Later on, in 1852, he was appointed personal physician to the king of Two Sicilies, Ferdinand II of Bourbon. In 1857 he co-founded a medical journal named "Il Morgagni", after the famous anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni, which, under his direction, rapidly became one of the most relevant periodical publications on the subject. It was only after the fall of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies that Francesco De Sanctis, Minister of Education in the first post unitary government and reorganizer of the University of Naples, called him to the chair of pathological anatomy firstly and then to that of Medical Clinic. In 1865, however, Ramaglia, who had had the first signs of the evil that ten years later would have taken him to the grave, renounced his chair, but did not abandon his studies which ended with the precise analysis of his illness. He studied tuberculous meningitis for 40 years grouping a remarkable series of works which committed him until the end of his life, in Naples on June 4, 1875. He left his wife, Marianna Tambelli, the task of publishing his latest work "Studies on the basic granular meningitis", a study that saw the light in 1876. Personal life In 1839 he married the noblewoman Marianna Tambelli, of the barons of San Martino and Sant’Anzino, whose father was the wealthy neapolitan lawyer Paolo Tambelli, baron of Sant’Anzino; he had two daughters: Giovanna, married into the barons del Pozzo family, and Concetta, married to Luigi d’Amato, patrician of Amantea. Awards and honours Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George; Knight of the Royal Order of Francis I; Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; Knight of the Order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus; Publications "Notomia Topografica" (1840) "Metodo diagnostico" (1862) "Studi sulla Meningite basilare granulosa" (1876) Bibliography Angelo Camillo De Meis, Idea generale dello sviluppo delle scienze mediche in Italia nella prima metà del secolo, Torino 1851. Angelo Camillo De Meis, Degli elementi della medicina, Stabilimento tipografico di Giacomo Monti, Bologna 1864. T. L. De Sanctis, "Discorso letto nella casa del defunto", La Gazzetta della provincia di Molise, n.26 13 Giugno 1875 G. Limoncelli, "Poche parole pronunciate sul feretro del prof. Pietro Ramaglia", La Gazzetta della Provincia di Molise, 20 giugno 1875 P. Pietravalle, "Pietro Ramaglia di Ripabottoni [Necrologia]", La Gazzetta della Provincia di Molise, n.31 18 luglio 1875