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Medical prestigious and passionate, the heart surgeon Charles Sassi Policlinico University of Siena, and also a complete artist and accomplished maker of some of the most important monuments of the modern city of Siena. It 's born in Altavilla Silentina in 1948, in Siena he works and creates. Carlo Sassi begins drawing on the back of some rolls used for electrocardiograms during the period when, as a young doctor, went to a workshop of specialization in France. "He began with only a hammer and a stone," says the mother. He directed the Unit of the thoracic aorta of the University Hospital of Siena, and was honored as the highest possible level to the profound vocation of medicine that the Sassi are to get to the seventh generation. What still strikes those who know Charles Sassi is how he manages to coexist within him his passions and the medical profession that he held in very high levels of commitment. Then there is the sculptor of the monument stones. At Santa Caterina, in the Val d'Orcia, in Santa Clara for the University of Siena, St. Michael the Archangel for the Folgore, Salvo d'Acquisto (three-meter high statue) to the Carabinieri, and more recently 'L'Abbraccio' for the Pediatrics section of Siena Hospital, who later became the logo of Santa Maria delle Scotte Polyclinic of his city. There are numerous works of art which he created (bas-reliefs in marble, stone and bronze) but also many of Sienese churches contain his sculptures 'sacred'. In recent years, his artistic activity is growing. Gilberto Madioni, Sienese journalist, wrote about him: "Heart surgeon, Sassi alternates the daily activity in white coats and operating room to the sculpture with graphic and painting preparation."