by Rita Levi-Montalcini · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788880891987
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«Senz'olio contro vento» is the biographical essay by Rita Levi-Montalcini, published by Baldini & Castoldi in paperback (178 pages, in Italian).
The author, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine in 1986, portrays ten people she met throughout her life who faced extreme difficulties with courage and integrity. Among them are her nephew Guido Montalcini, the partisan Giacomo Ulivi, the biologist Simonetta Tosi, the architect Giuseppe Pagano, and her friend Primo Levi, with whom she dialogues.
The work belongs to the Saggi collection (no. 80), originally published in 1996; its text is entirely in Italian.
For readers of biographies and stories of courage and integrity, as well as for those interested in the figure of Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
