Rita levi-Montalcini. A life with neurons

Academy member Pietro Calissano recalls the figure of the illustrious scientist in a recently published book. ‘I asked myself often whether it would have been interesting, or at least useful,…

Cecilia Saccone and “The Code of the Living”

The fellow Cecilia Saccone presents her book "Il codice dei viventi", published by Rubettino Editore during the pandemic. A scientist who has dedicated her life to Molecular Biology, at first…

Notes of a Jesuit scientist: the travel diaries of Angelo Secchi SJ

June 8, 2023, will see the presentation in Rome of the Travel Diaries of Angelo Secchi, a distinguished member of the Academy, a multifaceted figure and one of the most interesting of the Italian nineteenth century, who has been widely remembered in recent years with a dense program of initiatives carried out by the National Committee for the bicentennial of his birth. (more…)