Siro Brugnoli was born in Ronciglione, a small town in the province of Viterbo, on 13 April 1939.
His father Ferdinando was a successful forest industry entrepreneur and his mother Antonietta was a primary school teacher. On Palm Sunday 1943 he began to suffer the first symptoms of the disease, urgently transferred from his parents to the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome, the doctors diagnosed a violent form of spinal polio that forced him to stay for a long time in the steel lung and caused irreversible paralysis of his lower limbs and left arm. When his symptoms finally receded, he was admitted to the orthopedic institute "Principe di Napoli" in Ariccia where he began a long period of rehabilitation. In February 1944, after more than a year of hospital stay, he was released and while the allied troops were fighting a bloody battle at Montecassino, his ordeal began: a life to face with the difficulties of disability. Siro has reacted to the many hardships of life caused by the terrible consequences of illness with courage, determination and vigor and has managed to overcome unimaginable obstacles for a person with his disabilities.
In his early years he attended the most exclusive society salons and had romantic relationships with beautiful and famous women such as Isabella Biagini, Marisa Mell and Alida Chelli.
With his biomedical companies specialized in telemedicine he has managed to build over the years a small economic empire, he built in Malindi "Siroland", an area wit