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  1. He was one of the best-known contemporary Italian architects and a professor at the University of Turin. She had two sisters: Anna, five years older than Rita, and Paola, her twin sister, a popular artist who died on 29 September 2000, age 91. In 2003, she filed a libel suit for defamation against Beppe Grillo.

  2. Biographical. My twin sister Paola and I were born in Turin on April 22, 1909, the youngest of four children. Our parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and gifted mathematician, and Adele Montalcini, a talented painter and an exquisite human being. Our older brother Gino, who died twelve years ago of a heart attack, was one of the ...

  3. Rita Levi-Montalcini was born on 22 April 1909, in Turin, Italy, as one of the four children of Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician, and his wife Adele Montalcini, a talented painter. She grew up in a loving family environment and had a happy childhood. Her father was a well educated man who respected women.

  4. Rita and her twin sister Paola were the youngest of four children born to Adamo Levi and Adele Montalcini. Her mother was a painter, and her father was a mathematician and electrical engineer; both came from Jewish families whose roots extended back to the Roman Empire.

  5. As a feminist in a family with Victorian mores and as a Jew and free-thinker in Mussolini’s Italy, Rita Levi-Montalcini has encountered various forms of oppression many times in her life.

  6. Sep 7, 2022 · This was the quest of the incredible neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, and she was certainly no stranger to bravery. A bold beginning Born in Turin, Italy, in 1909, Levi-Montalcini had to convince her father to allow her to enroll in a university and pursue a professional career, which he protested would interfere with her prescribed fate as ...

  7. Dec 30, 2012 · Rita Levi-Montalcini was born in Turin, Italy, to a wealthy Jewish family. Her father was an electrical engineer and mathematician, her mother an artist. Inspired by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf's books, she considered a career as a writer, but ultimately decided to study medicine at the university in Turin.

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