Natalia Ginzburg
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Natalia Levi Ginzburg was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and
Ginzburg in 1956
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Ginzburg and President Sandro Pertini, early 1980s
Giuseppe Levi
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Giuseppe Levi was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. He was a pioneer of in vitro studies of cultured cells, and contri
Natalia Ginzburg
…Sicily, in 1916, she spent most of her youth in Turin with her family, as her father in 1919 took a position with the University of Turin. Her father, Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into a Jewish Italian family, and her mother, Lidia Tanzi (the sister of Drusilla and Silvio Tanzi), was…
Levi c. 1900s