Noble College, nominated Massimo Scaccabarozzi Collegiate Honoris Causa. Tomorrow the ceremony

Massimo Scaccabarozzi, President of Farmindustria, appointed Collegiate Honoris Causa of the Noble Pharmaceutical Chemical College-Universitas Aromatariorium Urbis. “This honor – he says – fills my heart with joy and gratitude. Above all for what the Nobile Collegio represents.

In fact, since its foundation in 1429, it has stood out for the contribution it has offered to the development of pharmaceutical preparations and to the care of people".

The conferment of the Insignia to the Collegiate Nobles Honoris Causa is given for professional and social merits and so that Massimo Scaccabarozzi can “with his thoughts and actions perpetuate the glory and that of the Institute of Pharmacy”. The ceremony will take place tomorrow in Rome.

"It is an unexpected recognition, therefore even more appreciated - continues Scaccabarozzi - which makes me think of my origins, of the motivations that led me as a young graduate, after a brief experience in pharmacy, to spend over 30 years of life in the pharmaceutical industry . A long journey in which I have tried to put my heart, passion and energy and during which I have received a lot".

“The honor – concludes Scaccabarozzi – gives me an even greater boost to increase my professional and social commitment to the development of the sector, of research, of the centrality of the person and the patient. And to carry forward – with renewed passion and enthusiasm – the glory of the Nobile Collegio and of the Pharmacy Institute and its ethical and social values”.

Federfarma – 03/26/2018

What is the Noble Chemical Pharmaceutical College Universitas Aromatariorum Urbis

On 8 March 1429, the enlightened will of Pope Martin V donated, by virtue of his merits, to the Guild of Roman Pharmacists, the Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo erected inside the ancient Roman Temple that the Emperor Antoninus wanted to build in 142 AD in honor of his wife Faustina. The donation from the Collegiate actually fulfilled the requests of the Corporation which in this way could have a sacred place to gather in prayer and reflect on the Christian and social values of art.

In 1602 the Corporation of Apothecaries wanted to erect the Church, still inside the Roman Temple, which still today, in its magnificence, is the pride of the Imperial Forums, of Rome and of Italian Pharmacists. The Church took the name of San Lorenzo de' Speziali in Campo Vaccino. Once the entire complex was erected, the Nobile Collegio de' Speziali was commissioned by the Pope to carry out those institutional functions which today belong to the Ministry of Health, the professional Order, the University.

In 1871, with the annexation of Rome to the Italian State, these prerogatives ceased and the Roman Noble College of Pharmacists, the oldest seat of the Guild in the world, began to perform academic, cultural and social functions.

The Noble Chemical Pharmaceutical College Universitas Aromatariorum Urbis is governed by fifty active Noble Collegiate members who are required to have professional and scientific merits, integrity of morals and to be Pharmacists in Rome.

There are three new noble collegiate honoris causa of the Noble Chemical Pharmaceutical College of Rome: John Leonardi, Gabriel Rampino And Massimo Scaccabarozzi. The ceremony, which took place on Sunday morning, was also the occasion to celebrate the 589th anniversary of the oldest professional institution of pharmacists. It was the year of our Lord 1429, in fact, when Pope Martin V (Oddone Colonna, whose election to the papal throne effectively put an end to the Western Schism which for almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, had broken the Western Church into two autocephalous bodies, dividing the community of the faithful into "Roman obedience" and "Avignon obedience") promulgated on 8 March the founding bull of the Noble Chemical Pharmaceutical College of Rome.