Italy On This Day

Thinker famous for theories on eternity and being Emanuele Severino was removed from the Catholic University of Milan because of his be...

Professor famous for treatise on ‘stupidity’ Carlo Cipolla's tongue-in-cheek book about human stupidity became a bestseller in Ita...

Professor among founding fathers of Italian psychiatry Andrea Verga was one of the first to see how criminal behaviour could be driven ...

Nobel prize winner whose name lives on in medical science Camillo Golgi expanded knowledge of the human nervous system Camillo Go...

Professor who first encouraged study of criminal mind Cesare Lombroso changed the way the world thought about criminals Cesare Lo...

Professor who first identified the neurotransmitter serotonin Dr Vittorio Erspamer Vittorio Erspamer, the pharmacologist and chemis...