Nicola Badaloni at the age of 24, officially took over the management at the Municipality of Trecenta on 11.7.1878.

In the period between 1885 and 1886 he became assistant to the chair of materia medica and pharmacology at the University of Padua.

In 1899 he obtained a teaching position in special demonstrative medical pathology at the Royal University of Perugia and was subsequently appointed professor of demonstrative medical pathology at the University of Naples.

Finally, in 1907 he was appointed member of the Superior Council of Health and was rapporteur for social-health bills on the abuse of narcotic substances.

However, scientific affirmations and recognitions are not enough to dissuade him from Polesine; for him, being a doctor is not a profession, but rather a real vocation. In fact, he accepted from the “Provincial Deputation” of Rovigo to investigate the causes of pellagra and the terrible effects that this disease produced on the organism, a real plague of the Polesine in those years. It is research done with passion, in which it highlights not only the darkest aspects of the disease, but also investigates and describes the entire economic, moral and social environment. His investigation, which will last four years, will however be opposed and his results will be made to disappear, so much so that today only a bare summary of his work appears.

Within a few years, Nicola Badaloni’s great talents in the scientific and healthcare fields and his particular care for the poor classes, to whom his human and political solidarity went, made him a symbol and a point of reference.

To better understand the figure of Badaloni it is necessary to analyze the cultural environment in which he was formed. In 1880 he joined the “League of Democracy” which at a national level enjoyed the patronage of Giuseppe Garibaldi and in the Polesine of Alberto Mario and his wife Jessie White, who were very fond of Badaloni. He will then represent the workers’ society of Trecenta at the regional conference in Verona and will become leader of the Polesine Socialist Party. Thus began his propaganda activity together with that of a researcher

In 1906 he presented himself and won the office in the administrative elections of Lendinara and Badia Polesine. Previously, in 1886 he was elected to Parliament in the Badia Polesine constituency and in 1889 he was Provincial Councilor in Rovigo. In Parliament he reports on pellagra, malaria and the laws for municipal veterinarians. In 1920 he was appointed Senator on Giolitti’s proposal. As a Deputy he fought for universal suffrage, collaborated in the Ministerial inquiry into the conditions of Polesine agricultural workers, and also fought for the construction of infrastructures such as railways, postal connection services, roads, reclamation works, and above all nursing homes for “pellagrosis”. and mentally insane” in Polesine.