When you think about what can be the passion for the study of the brain, the love for culture, Rita Levi Montalcini immediately thinks of everything that could refer to phenomena that in the war years were still completely unknown and that a great woman gave us the opportunity to get passionate about it thanks to her love and knowledge.

Well yes, a woman with a strong character, born at the beginning of the twentieth century from father engineer, Adam Levi and mother painter, Alice Montalcini, dedicated herself to the study of the development of the nervous system, which she perfected in the United States, where she lived for thirty years.