Ángel Castelli


Ángel Castelli was a Greek-born Venetian Italian doctor and apothecary, who served in Buenos Aires during the colonial period. He had meritorious work in the beginnings of medicine in the Río de la Plata.
He was born in Koroni, Greece, the son of Antonio Castelli and Francesca Salomon, belonging to a distinguished family from Venice. He settled in 1752 in Buenos Aires and married in 1763 with María Josefa Villarino y González, daughter of Francisco Villarino Varela and Gregoria González Islas.