Francesco PonaFrancesco Pona (11 October 1595 – 2 October 1655) was an Italian medical doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays. A Veronese medical doctor and member of many academies, Pona was a prolific writer, producing medical and scientific texts, historiography, literary translation, drama, lyric poetry, prose romances, and tales.
Romina DanieleRomina Daniele (born Naples, 8 February 1980) is an Italian exponent of the vocal extended technique, an avant-garde and blues singer, a composer of electronic and experimental music, vocalist and performer associated with contemporary music, writer, photographer. Since 2005, she has been working on sound research in the fields of vocalism and electronic music, and since 2013 she has been working as blues singer as well.
Roberto CarifiRoberto Carifi (born 1948 in Pistoia), is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intellectual of his generation he has been influenced by having a very difficult illness to cope with. Since his university years Carifi was attracted by French and German philosophy, in his mature age he also crossed paths with Buddhist, getting influenced for instance in his collections, such as Tibet and The Secret.
Pietro IchinoPietro Ichino (born 22 March 1949) is an Italian politician and professor of labor law at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano). From 1979 to 1983, he was an independent left-wing MP belonging to the ranks of the Italian Communist Party. In 2008, he was elected senator for the Democratic Party in the district of Lombardy. Born in Milan, he is brother of the economist Andrea Ichino. He has been married since 1973 to Costanza Rossi, with whom he has had two daughters.
Sante De SanctisSante De Sanctis (7 February 1862 – 20 February 1935) was an Italian physician, psychologist, and psychiatrist. He is considered one of the founders of the Italian psychology and pediatric psychiatry. Sante De Sanctis was born on 7 February 1862 in Parrano, where his family had resided since the 16th century. He graduated in medicine at La Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on aphasia in 1886. He began working in 1891 at the Roman laboratory of pathological anatomy of Santa Maria della Pietà psychiatric hospital, directed by Giovanni Mingazzini.
Emmanuel AgiusEmmanuel Agius (born 1954) is a Maltese minor philosopher mostly specialised and interested in ethics. Agius was born at Mqabba, Malta, in 1954. He studied at the University of Malta from where he acquired a Bachelor’s degree and a Licentiate in Theology (1979). Subsequently, he studied in Belgium at the University of Leuven from where he acquired a Master’s degree in philosophy and a Doctorate degree in Theology (1986).
Carlo FeaCarlo Fea (4 June 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist. Born at Pigna, in Liguria, Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took Holy Orders and became an Abbott.
Piero CamporesiPiero Camporesi (15 February 1926, in Forlì – 24 August 1997 in Bologna) was an Italian historian of literature and an anthropologist. He was a professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna. (English translations) Il Brodo Indiano (Exotic Brew, English translation by Christopher Woodall) La casa dell'eternità (The fear of hell: images of damnation and salvation in early modern Europe, English translation by Lucinda Byatt) Le officine dei sensi (The anatomy of the senses: natural symbols in medieval and early modern Italy, English translation by Allan Cameron) Il sugo della vita (Juice of life: the symbolic and magic significance of blood, English translation by Robert R.
Olivier IhlOlivier Ihl (born 29 December 1965, in Sarreguemines) is a French professor of political science, director of the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, France and member of the laboratory PACTE (acronym of Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires). He is the head of an international program of scientific cooperation between France and Chile.
Maurizio TrifoneMaurizio Trifone (born 1953) is an Italian linguist and lexicographer. Trifone is professor of Italian language at the University of Cagliari. From 1995 to 2005 he was professor of Lexicography and Lexicology at the Foreigners University of Siena. Previously, he was lexicographer and etymologist at the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani. He has led research about Italian linguistic history from the Middle Ages to the present day. He has authored Il Devoto-Oli dei sinonimi e contrari, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms published by Le Monnier in 2013.
