Bachelor in 1923 in medicine to the University of Rome, is specialized attending course in various University foreign (London, Frankfurt, Paris and Berlin), in short time opens wide the doors of one shining how much extraordinary scientific career.

From 1930 to the 1933 standard human physiology in the athenaeums of Assuncion in Paraguay and Saint Paul in Brasi they. In 1934 she is to the University of Messina where she assumes the chair of biological Chemistry and, the successive year, the chair of human Physiology. Subsequently it is the Preside of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Messina and then Chancellor of the same University, maintains the assignment until to 1954 when he then becomes Minister of Public education and Minister of the Foreign policies until 1957.

In 1946 it comes elect in the Constituent Assembly in the College of the Sicily Orients them and in 1948 it enters to make part of the first Repubblicano.ed Parliament is reconfirmed in all the successive legislature with an always increasing number of suffragi.

It remains to teach to the University of Messina until to 1957 when subentra to its master Amantea to the chair of human Physiology to the University of Rome.

Gaetano Martino, with the Conference of Messina of june 1955 and with Deals you of Rome of March 1957 that brings its company, alloy its name in indissolubile way to the idea, then in embryo, of a United Europe that left just from "the its" Messina.

In 1960 it leaves the Ministry of the Foreign countries and comes put $R-at the head of one Italian delegation parliamentarian to the XV and XVI the Shareholders' meeting of the UN to New York. E' one of the three "tests" of the NATO authors of the relationship on the tasks of the Atlantic Alliance in the civil sphere. From 1963 to 1964 he is the President of the European Parliament. In 1966, with plebiscitario ballot, Martino is elect Chancellor of the University "the Wisdom" of Rome.