- Romano Prodi
Prime Minister of Italy from 1996 to 1998. After winning the 2006 General Elections with his coalition of center-left parties "L'Unione", he again has been Prime Minister since 17 May 2006. President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Professor of industrial organization and industrial policy - Pier Ugo Calzolari
Pier Ugo Calzolari (born 11 March, 1938 in Granarolo Emilia) is an Italian engineer. He has been professor of Applied Electronics since 1969. He has been rector of the University of Bologna since the year 2000. - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly controversial figure. - Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi (March 10, 1628 - September 30, 1694) was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features. He was a pioneer in using a microscope and he has also been described as a founder of comparative physiology and microscopic anatomy. Malpighi was born in Crevalcore ("Cavalcuore" in old Italian), Italy, raised on the farm his parents owned and entered the University of Bologna at the age of 17. - Irnerius
Irnerius (c. 1050 - after 1125), sometimes referred to as "lucerna juris" ("lantern of the law"), was an Italian jurist, and founder of the School of Glossators. He taught the newly recovered Roman lawcode of Justinian I, the "Corpus Juris Civilis", among the liberal arts at the University of Bologna, his native city. The recovery and revival of Roman law, taught first at Bologna in the 1070s, was a momentous event in European cultural history. - Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (May 16, 1718 - January 9, 1799) was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna. - Ugo Bassi
Ugo Bassi (august 12 1800 - August 8, 1849) was an Italian patriot. - Robin Milner
Robin Milner FRS (born 1934, Plymouth, England) is a prominent British computer scientist. - Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli was an Italian poet and classical scholar. He had a tragic childhood with the murder of his father and the early deaths of his mother, sister and two brothers. His first work, "Myracae" (1891), reflects his morbid childhood. He studied at the University of Bologna, and his teacher and mentor was Giosuè Carducci. When Carducci retired, Pascoli replaced him as the recipient of the Literature Chair. - Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo de Guzmán Garcés (1170 - August 6, 1221) was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP), a Catholic religious order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers and the Dominican Republic. - Federigo Enriques
Federigo Enriques was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. He was born in Livorno, and brought up in Pisa, in a Jewish family of Portuguese descent. He became a student of Guido Castelnuovo, and became an important member of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. He also worked on differential geometry. - Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625-September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as Giandomenico Cassini, was born in Perinaldo, nearby Sanremo, at that time in the Republic of Genoa. Cassini was an astronomer at the Panzano Observatory, from 1648 to 1669. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna and became, in 1671, director of the Paris Observatory. - Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber is a French anthropologist, linguist and cognitive scientist, currently a Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS. He is known, amongst other things, for his work on pragmatics and in particular relevance theory; and also for his theory on “epidemiology of representations”. In the early Seventies, Sperber was one of the critics of the French structuralism in anthropology. - Jan Kregel
Jan A. Kregel (born 19 April 1944) is an eminent Post-Keynesian economist. Kregel currently serves as Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the Financing for Development Office of UNDESA, the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), … - Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller," which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina. - Cino da Pistoia
Cino da Pistoia was an Italian jurist and poet. He was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. His full name was "Guittoncino dei Sinibaldi" or, latinised, "Cinus de Sighibuldis". He received his doctorate from the University of Bologna and taught law at the universities of Siena, Florence, Perugia, and Naples. In 1334, he was elected Gonfaloniere of Pistoia, but did not take up the office. Cino's most important legal work was "Lectura in codicem" (1312–1314), … - Giovanni Antonio Magini
Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (June 13, 1555--February 11, 1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician. He was born in Padua, and completed studies in philosophy in Bologna in 1579. His father was Pasquale Magini, a citizen of Padua. Dedicating himself to astronomy, in 1582 he wrote "Ephemerides coelestium motuum", translated into Italian the following year. - Raymond Of Peñafort
Saint Raymond of Peñafort (Raymond de Penyafort, Catalan Raimon de Penyafort) was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, a small town near Barcelona, Spain, around 1180. He was educated in Barcelona and also at the University of Bologna in Italy, where he received doctorates in civil law and canon law. From 1195 to 1210, he taught canon law. In 1210, he moved to Bologna, where he remained until 1222, including three years occupying the chair of canon law at the university. - Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian architect and engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. He is renowned for his brilliance as a structural engineer and his novel use of reinforced concrete. - Giovanni D'Andrea
Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreæ was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as "iuris canonici fons et tuba" ("the fount and trumpet of canon law"). Most important among his works were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, … - Piero Camporesi
Piero Camporesi is an Italian historian of literature. He was a Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. - Eugenio Beltrami
Eugenio Beltrami (16 November, 1835 - 4 June, 1899) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work on non-Euclidean geometry, electricity, and magnetism. He was born in Cremona in Lombardy, then a part of the Austrian Empire, and now part of Italy. Beltrami first began studying mathematics at University of Pavia in 1853, but was forced to discontinue his studies in 1856 because of financial hardship. He was appointed to the University of Bologna as a professor in 1862, … - Bruno Rossi
Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s. Rossi was born in Venice. After receiving the doctorate degree from the University of Bologna, … - Luca Ghini
Luca Ghini (1490 - May 4, 1556) was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first botanical garden in Europe. Ghini was born in Imola, son of a notary, and studied medicine at the University of Bologna. By 1527 he was lecturing there on medicinal plants, and eventually became a professor. He moved to Pisa in 1544, while maintaining his home in Bologna. - Susan Haack
Susan Haack (born 1945) is an English professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, in the United States. She has made contributions in the fields of philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. - Bulgarus
Bulgarus was a twelfth century Italian jurist, born at Bologna. He is sometimes erroneously called Bulgarinus, which was properly the name of a jurist of the 15th century. Bulgarus was the most celebrated of the famous Four Doctors of the law school of the University of Bologna, and was regarded as the Chrysostom of the Glossators, being frequently designated by the title of the Golden Mouth (os aureum). He died in 1166 at a very advanced age. - Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara
Domenico Maria Novara (Ferrara, 1454-1504) was an astronomer and a professor at the university of Bologna for 21 years. He was also an astrologer, perhaps for economical reasons (as it was common at those times). Posthumously, he became famous for having been Nicolaus Copernicus' teacher. Copernicus started out as Novara's student and then became his assistant and co-worker. Novara, in turn, had declared that his teacher had been the famous astronomer Regiomontanus, … - Bernard Of Botone
Bernard of Botone (date of birth unknown; d. 1263, or, according to Hurter, 24 March, 1266) was a noted Italian canonist of the thirteenth century. He is generally called Bern(h)ardus Parmensis or Bernard of Parma, from his birthplace Parma. He studied in Bologna, under Tancred, where later he accepted the chair of canon law. Here Durantis was his disciple. - Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (January 9, 1881 - July 8, 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist. - William Of Saliceto
William of Saliceto (or Guglielmo da Saliceto) (1210 - 1277) was a surgeon and cleric in Lombardy who broke tradition with Galen by claiming that pus formation was bad for wounds and for the patient. He was a professor at the University of Bologna. In 1275 he wrote "Chirurgia" which promoted the use of a surgical knife over cauterizing. He also was the author of "Summa conservationis et curationis" on hygiene and therapy. - Alessandra Giliani
Alessandra Giliani (~1307 - March 26, 1326) was an Italian anatomist, serving as the first woman prosector, or preparer of dissections for anatomical study. She was the surgical assistant to Mondino De' Luzzi (d. 1326), professor of medicine at the University of Bologna who published a seminal anatomy handbook in 1316. She developed a method of draining the blood from a corpse and replacing it with a hardening coloured dye, … - Tullia Magrini
Tullia Magrini was an Italian anthropologist, Associate Professor of Anthropology of Music at the University of Bologna, Italy. Margini did fieldwork in Italy, Greece, Bali and Madagascar. She served as Secretary General of the Società Italiana di Etnomusicologia (1982-86) and Chairperson of the ICTM Italian Committee (from 1986). She was founder in 1992 and chair since then of the ICTM Study Group, "Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures". - Ceslaus
Saint Ceslaus (Czesław) was born in Kamień Śląski (Gross Stein) in Silesia, Poland, of the noble family of Odrowąż, and was a relative, probably a brother, of Saint Hyacinth. Having studied philosophy at Prague, he pursued his theological and juridical studies at the University of Bologna, after which he returned to Cracow, where he held the office of canon and custodian of the church of Sandomir. About 1218 he accompanied his uncle Ivo, Bishop of Cracow, to Rome. - Dorotea Bucca
Dorotea Bucca (1360 - 1436) (also Dorotea Bocchi) was an Italian physician. She held a chair in medicine at the University of Bologna. - Stanislaus Hosius
Stanislaus Hosius was a papal legate to Poland, a cardinal, and a Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Warmia. Hosius was the son of Ulrich Hos of Pforzheim and was born in Kraków, Poland during a time when many German and Italian immigrants (mostly craftsmen and artists) resided in the city. Hosius studied law at the University of Padua and the University of Bologna. He became Bishop of Chełmno in 1549 and Prince-Bishop of Warmia in 1551. - Martinus Gosia
Martinus Gosia was one of the glossators and a 12th century Italian jurist, counted among the Four Doctors of Bologna, the others being Bulgarus, Hugo de Porta Ravennate and Jacobus de Boragine. Martinus Gosia and Bulgarus were the chiefs of two opposite schools at the University of Bologna, corresponding in many respects to the Proculians and Sabinians of Imperial Rome. - Pietro Mengoli
Pietro Mengoli (1626-1686) was an Italian mathematician from Bologna, where he studied with Bonaventura Cavalieri at the University of Bologna, and succeeded him in 1647. He remained as professor there for the next 39 years of his life. In 1644 it was Mengoli who first posed the famous Basel problem, solved in 1735 by Leonhard Euler. He wrote a paper in 1650, in which he proved that the sum of the alternating harmonic series is equal to the natural logarithm of 2. - Riane Eisler
Dr. Eisler tells us that the current political, economic, and cultural categories are useless for creating conditions that support compassion and sustainability area. Thus, she began to recognize two systems of culture: the partnership system and the domination system. In the domination system, caring is devalued. In the partnership system, caring and compassion are two of the highest values. The real wealth of the nation is the contributions of people and nature. - Riccardo Campa
Riccardo Campa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cracow. He possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. - Salvatore Pincherle
Salvatore Pincherle (February 11, 1853 - July 19, 1936) was an Italian mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. Pincherle was born into a Jewish family and spent his childhood in Marseille, …
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