FRANCESCO SAVERIO BARTOLI

Francesco Saverio Bartoli

A modestly talented actor and playwright, Bartoli acted Accessories - Headwear with his wife Teodora Medebach in the theatre company directed by Antonio Sacco from 1771 to 1777.Sick with tuberculosis, he precociously retired from the stage to become Hats a bookseller.He is renown as the author of the first biographical dictionary of italian actors,

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Rita Levi-Montalcini: the neurologist who challenged fascism

Rita Levi-Montalcini was a researcher in the field of neuroscience, Italian and Jewish in origin, who discovered the nerve growth factor and rightfully earned the 1986 Nobel Prize Turkey Tail in Physiology or Medicine, alongside her collaborator Stanley Cohen.She was persecuted by the fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and experienced gender

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