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Who is Galileo Galilei? For Virginia he is Gali, the older brother with whom she spies into the summer skies in search for stars with. Gali, is also a scholar to be admired and a scientist to be respected. However, many years later, Virginia and Galileo set out to conquer the Universe together. Learn more about Galileo through the eyes of the people closest to him.

Writers, journalists, educators, politicians, scientists, actresses, doctors, philosophers, entrepreneurs, sportswomen, painters, and philanthropists. Many women have made their talent shine, despite yesterday, as I still true today, that the road is not free from tough terrain. Raccontami di lei is a portrait of just a few women who have left their mark on Padua, the third volume published by Padua University Press and edited by the editorial staff of Il Bo Live tells just some of these important stories.

Modern medicine was not born in a time, but rather in a place: the city of Padua. The classrooms of its University, the walls of its Anatomical Theater, the cultivated plants of its Botanical Garden, and, of course, in its hospitals. Padua, a place where the knowledge, the theory, and the practice of medicine continues to take shape.

Chi è Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia? È la prima donna laureata del mondo. Grazie ai propri talenti e all’ambizione del padre si fa avanti in un mondo di uomini, conquista l’alloro, diventa famosa e stimata ovunque. Ma alla gloria preferisce la fedeltà a una scelta fatta da bambina. A raccontare la sua storia, a dare parole alla sua canzone è Maddalena, l’amica di musica che le è stata accanto per tutta la vita.

Who is Milla? An extraordinary determined woman and tireless scholar known all over the world. Milla was first a student at the University of Padua and then a colleague among the world’s best physicists. Massimilla Baldo Ceolin, known as ‘Milla’, was a pioneer of particle physics. Thanks to years of her cutting-edge research, she also earned the nicknames “the lady of the neutrino” and “the lady of the antilambda.”