Luciani is a surname originally from Rome, Italy, while the surname Eduardo (Edwards) goes back to Dublin, Ireland. My great-grandfather on my mother’s mother side, Enrique Luciani Eduardo had six siblings. Today I want to introduce you three of these siblings because of their important role in Venezuelan society and life of last century.
(1881 - 1971) Lucila Luciani Eduardo was an extraordinary character, a woman with great civil values within an excessively militarized country. She was an intellectual lady inside a society of men, possessing a cosmopolitan culture and a feminist vein really ahead of her time. Lucila was the first woman who enters as an Individual Number in the Venezuelan Academy of History.
(1886 - 1979) Domingo Luciani Eduardo was a surgeon and teacher in Venezuela. After he graduated as a Doctor, he worked at the Civil Hospital of Caracas side by side with Dr. José Gregorio Hernandez. Later he traveled to Europe where he specialized in Advanced General Surgery, Gynecology, Urology and Operative Medicine. After he returned to Venezuela and for over 40 years, Domingo was one of the most outstanding teachers of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Central de Venezuela; his student often vied for top positions in the classroom to monitor his teaching methods. For his legacy of education and health, he received numerous honors throughout his career. Also the Eastern General Hospital of Caracas proudly bears his name.
(1894-1956) Jorge Luciani Eduardo was an outstanding essayist, historian, politician and diplomat. As a student he strongly opposed the government of Juan Vicente Gomez for which he was imprisoned and tortured in "The Rotunda". After Gomez’s government falls, Jorge Luciani begins his diplomatic career, serving a democratic Venezuela as Council at Barcelona, Guayaquil, Amsterdam and Southampton.
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