Víctor Macchiavello

Víctor Macchiavello Parlender (7 June 1910 – 17 August 1963) was a Chilean physician and Radical Party politician.

He served as Deputy of the Republic for the 12th Departmental Grouping (Talca, Lontué, and Curepto) during the 1957–1961 legislative period.^[1]

Macchiavello was born in San Javier on 7 June 1910, the son of Víctor Tomás Macchiavello Canessa and Luisa Parlender Pasalacqua. He married Dubilia Forni Mottinelli in Talca on 1 January 1940, and they had four children.

He completed his secondary education at the Liceo de Hombres de Talca, and later pursued medical studies at the University of Concepción and the University of Chile, earning his degree as a physician and surgeon in 1937 with a thesis titled «Contribución al estudio de la diálisis femoral».

He practiced as a trauma specialist at the Hospital de Talca, and also served as medical officer for both the Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado and the Carabineros de Chile.

A member of the Radical Party, he was elected Deputy of the Republic for the 12th Departmental Grouping (Talca, Lontué, and Curepto) for the 1957–1961 legislative term, where he served on the Permanent Commission of Finance.

Macchiavello was an active member of the Masonic movement and a volunteer in the Talca Fire Department.

He died in Talca on 17 August 1963.

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