THE MERCALLI SCALE
His life was modest and made up of research and work, but his name is still very well known and linked to earthquakes. We are talking about Padre Giuseppe Mercalli (1850-1914).
He was born in Milan and ordained a priest in 1872, but after having taken his degree in natural sciences, he decided to become an abbot and dedicate himself to his passion, seismology. He left us about one hundred treatises, and above all his scale to measure the intensity of earthquakes, which was developed according to the effects caused by the seism: the ‘Mercalli Scale.’

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MORGAGNI, THE ‘PRINCE’ OF ANATOMY
Anatomist and pathologist, Giovanni Battista Morgagni is considered the real founder of modern clinic medicine. As an upholder of Galileo and intentioned to discover howthe human body worked considering it like a machine, Morgagni applied the experimental method to his studies and became very famous. He laid the foundations for a new system that was based on a strictly experimental method.

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EDUCATION CENTERS, STUDIES AND KNOWLEDGE
The University of Bologna is the oldest university in Europe. Founded in 1088, the Alma Mater Studiorum was born as an association in which the associates were linked to each other by an oath of belonging to recognized rectors. The first studies were focused on law, then added logic, economics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, arithmetic, rhetoric, grammar and then theology, Greek and Hebrew. The fame of the university made Bologna the destination of distinguished guests and scholars. Over the past nine centuries of history, he has distinguished among his students such prominent figures as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Guido Guinizelli, Cecco d’Ascoli, Salimbene from Parma, Coluccio Salutati, Torquato Tasso and many others.

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GUGLIELMO MARCONI’S RADIO
The father of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, was also of Italian origin. If at present we can use this powerful medium, we owe it to this engineer from Bologna who in 1898 made his first radio broad­cast without connecting wires over the water from Ballycastle (Northern Ireland) to Rathlin Island. Thanks to his hard work, Marconi achieved his most ambitious project in 1908: regular transatlan­tic transmissions. One year later he was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics, which was only the first of a series of prestigious awards. Marconi’s inven­tion rescued the survivors of the Titanic, which was one of the first ships to be equipped with a radio. Out of 2,358 passengers, only 740 survived thanks to that SOS which was launched off Greenland. Marconi was among the first people to rush to the harbour of New York to welcome the survivors.

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LEONARDO DA VINCI, A 360° GENIUS
He dealt with anatomy, military and civil en­gineering, hydraulics, optics, music, botany, as-tronomy, geophysics… He was responsible for extraordinary observations regarding light and the flight of birds, the universe and nature. And then there is of course his unparalleled talent in painting and sculpture, to which we owe The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. This is Leonar­do da Vinci, artist and scientific humanist, both intellectual and visionary, logical and enigmatic. His ‘multifaceted genius’ has spanned centuries, from the 1500s to the present day, leaving us a great patrimony – between works and man­uscripts (over 16,000 pages with tens of thou­sands of drawings) – which continues to astound us with the unquenchable thirst for knowledge and, above all, the exceptionally modern way of thinking that it represents.

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GALILEO’S REVOLUTION
Physicist, philosopher, astronomer and math­ematician: Galileo was a many-sided genius, above all he is considered the father of modern sciences. His name is linked to important dis­coveries which have ‘paved the way’ for future important personalities in the world of physics, such as Einstein and Newton: the principle of rel­ativity, the sunspots, the satellites of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, the principle of inertia. Galileo challenged above all the geocentric theory (ac­cording to which the Earth is in the center of the universe) with the heliocentric theory: an essen­tial discovery, although it was not accepted by the Church, which compelled Galileo to abjure his theories. Nevertheless, we cannot say that it was a defeat: since Galileo man has tried to seek the answers to their questions ‘in’ nature through experience, experiments and thinking.

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THE ‘TRUE’ FATHER OF PENICILLIN IS FROM MOLISE
The discovery of penicillin is associated with the name Alexander Fleming, who, in 1928, observed that a certain mold inhibited the growth of a bacte­ria. However, thirty years earlier, Vincenzo Tiberio, a young doctor from Molise, had noticed that the inhabitants of a house where he was a guest would regularly come down with an intestinal infection every time the well which provided water for their daily needs was cleaned of mold. The young doc­tor recorded meticulously and in great detail the results of his observations in a booklet entitled ‘On the Extracts of Some Molds.’ This was in 1895. No one knows why it is that Tiberio abandoned his study, eventually becoming a medical officer in the navy. His research, printed by the University of Naples, wound up in the archives before anyone realized its significance.

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THE METER, AN INGENIOUS INTUITION FROM BELLUNO
The problem of figures has been troubling men since ancient times: feet, inches, days, steps are just some of the units of measurements which have been used over the centuries. Nevertheless,we owe to Tito Livio Burattini, mathematician and cartographer who was born in Agordo (Belluno) the first concrete formulation of the need for a sole system of measurement which had to be uniform, accessible and ever-lasting.

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