The Misericordia Hospital ( it, Ospedale Misericordia di Grosseto) is a

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located in

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. It is home to the International School of Robotic Surgery ( it, Scuola internazionale di chirurgia robotica), founded in 2004 by Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti.

History

The hospital was founded during the

13th century The 13th century was the century which lasted from January 1, 1201 ( MCCI) through December 31, 1300 ( MCCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan, which stretched from Eastern Asia to Eastern Eu ...

by the monks of the nearby church of San Francesco, and later became a branch of

Santa Maria della Scala, Siena Santa Maria della Scala (also referred to as the Hospital, Ospedale, and Spedale) is located in Siena, Italy. Now a museum, it was once an important civic hospital dedicated to caring for abandoned children, the poor, the sick, and pilgrims. Reven ...

. It was renewed and re-opened in 1787 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Peter Leopold. During the

1950s The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its re ...

, the municipality of Grosseto considered the possibility of transferring the hospital to a modern building outside the old city, as the historic structure could not satisfy the needs of the increasing population. The new building was partly financed by the businessman

Ferdinando Innocenti Ferdinando Innocenti (; 1 September 1891, in Pescia, Italy – 21 June 1966, in Varese) was an Italian businessman who founded the machinery-works company Innocenti and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter. Innocenti started worki ...

and the

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 () and established in its present form in 1624 (), it is the world's oldest or second oldest bank ...

, and designed by architects Mario Luzzetti and . Construction began on 17 November 1964 and the hospital opened in 1974.

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