Francesco Racanelli
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Francesco Racanelli (1904–1978) was an Italian doctor, pranotherapist and writer, and the originator of an unconventional therapy that he called in {{langx|it|medicina bioradiante}} or "bio-radiant medicine".
Biography
Francesco Racanelli was born in 1904 in Sannicandro di Bari, Puglia, Italy.[http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?db=solr_auth&resultForward=opac/iccu/full_auth.jsp&from=1&nentries=10&searchForm=opac/iccu/error.jsp&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&fname=none&item:5019:VID::@frase@=IT\ICCU\SBLV\014309 Scheda di autorità. SBN = IT\ICCU\SBLV\014309] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182003/http://opac.sbn.it/opacsbn/opaclib?db=solr_auth&resultForward=opac%2Ficcu%2Ffull_auth.jsp&from=1&nentries=10&searchForm=opac%2Ficcu%2Ferror.jsp&do_cmd=search_show_cmd&fname=none&item%3A5019%3AVID%3A%3A%40frase%40=IT%5CICCU%5CSBLV%5C014309 |date=3 March 2016 }} (in Italian). Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche 2010. Accessed June 2013. He believed that he possessed a gift which, much later in his life, he called "bio-radiant energy", and that there was a "vital fluid" which "emanated" from "particularly gifted people".{{cite book|language=Italian|title=La giustizia penale|volume=59|first1=Gennaro|last1=Escobedo|publisher=Città di Castello|year=1954|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TG06AQAAIAAJ&q=Racanelli}} He began to practice on people. As a result, he was prosecuted for the illegal practice of medicine. To avoid further legal problems, he studied medicine{{cite book|language=Italian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ie8AAAAIAAJ&q=Racanelli|year=1980|title=Bollettino di psicologia applicata|issue=153–157|pages=109, 159}} and qualified as a doctor. He worked as a healer and lecturer in Florence. He treated wounded people in Florence during the Liberation of Italy.{{cite book|language=Italian|publisher=Ed. Medicea|year=1994|page=89|first1=Alberto|last1=Marcolin|others=Foreword by Giovanni Spadolini|oclc=32625711|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VM6AAAAAIAAJ&q=Racanelli&pg=PA89|title=Firenze, 1943–'45: anni di terrore e di fame, fascisti e antifascisti, addio camicia nera}}
Francesco Racanelli died in Orbetello, in 1978.
Bibliography
Francesco Racanelli wrote several books, some of which were translated into French and German. They include:
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=Il dolore e la sua medicina|year=1939|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|publisher=Giannini & Giovannelli|oclc=632666065|location=Firenze}}
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=Terra di nessuno, terra per tutti|year=1948|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|oclc=122438578|publisher=F. Le Monnier}}
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=Il dono della guarigione|year=1949|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|publisher=Vallecchi|oclc=758848358}} French translation 1951.
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=Medicina bioradiante|year=1951|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|oclc=14649906|publisher=Vallecchi}} German translation 1951.
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=Natura e anime|oclc=3849053|year=1977|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|publisher=Vallecchi}} Nine stories, 1945–1975.{{cite book|language=Italian|title=Medici scrittori d'Europa e d'America|page=73|first1=Arnaldo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQQgAQAAMAAJ&q=Racanelli|last1=Cherubini|year=1990|oclc=427519055|publisher=Antonio Delfino Editore|others=344 p.|isbn=9788878100480 }}
- {{cite book|language=Italian|title=L'altra medicina|year=1978|oclc=4777902|first1=Francesco|last1=Racanelli|publisher=Vallecchi|edition=3rd}}
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