Gio Ponti Arredi vivi – Il restauro
The book tells the story of the restoration of the furnishings designed by Gio Ponti for the Rectorate of the University of Padua, beginning in 1934.
Available only in Italian.
Per un’unica conoscenza
PER UN’UNICA CONOSCENZA. Pietro Greco e Il Bo Live
a cura della redazione de Il Bo Live
Available in Italian only.
Il clima che vogliamo
Il clima che vogliamo - is the latest book published by Il Bo Live and the first of the new series that investigates and offers perspectives from scientific perspective. With detailed reports from hundreds of international researchers whose work delves into the political forums (the COPs on climate and biodiversity) in response to the alarms set off in unison from the scientific community.
Available only in Italian.
Raccontami di lei
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.
Available only in Italian.
Geografie d’infanzia
What is childhood? Offered only in Italian, Geografie d'infanzia is a perspective of a time that unites us. The book uncovers the child like mind that contains the primitive facts that grow into thoughts, reflections, and the future construction of meaning.
Available only in Italian.
Medici rivoluzionari
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.
Available only in Italian.
Un sogno alla velocità della luce
Un sogno alla velocità della luce is part of the historical novels for children in the Storie Libere series. Available only in Italian, each book offers an innovative and engaging story for kids ages 9 and up. Protagonists from each story are either well known, or well noted, but all have lives intertwined with the history of Padua and its prestigious University.
Il bisnonno fischiettava
"Il bisnonno fischiettava - una notte nella Padova partigiana"
A moving and poetic graphic novel, written by journalist Antonio Massariolo and illustrated by comic artist Giorgio Romagnoni, great-grandson of Piero Artuso.
Elena and her great-grandfather—former custodian of Palazzo del Bo (the historic seat of the University of Padua)—walk through the streets of Padua by night, riding an old bicycle through a city that, torn between brutality and bravery, fear and clandestine resistance, found its way to liberation from Nazi-Fascism on April 28, 1945.
Available only in Italian.
La canzone di Elena
Who is Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia?
She is the first woman in the world to earn a university degree. Thanks to her own talents and her father’s ambition, she makes her way in a man’s world, earns the laurel wreath, and becomes famous and respected everywhere. Yet she chooses fidelity to a decision made in childhood over glory.
Telling her story and giving words to her song is Maddalena, her musical companion and lifelong friend.
Available in Italian only.
La voce del coraggio
Who is Concetto Marchesi?
In November 1943, in a Padua occupied by the Nazis, he becomes the new rector of the university.
For Vandina, who happens to witness his passionate opening speech for the academic year, this moment also marks the beginning of an unexpected life. This courageous twelve-year-old girl discovers that it is possible not to be a Fascist, and that within the university many students — including her sister Fernanda — are, together with Marchesi, imagining an Italy free from dictatorship. She herself will take part in this endeavor.
With final in-depth information sheets produced by the University of Padua.
Available in Italian only.
Milla
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.”
Available only in Italian.
Il collezionista di mostri
Available only in Italian, Il collezionista di mostri share the story of Antonio Vallisneri, one of the greatest exponents of the scientific culture of the eighteenth century. With his method of research and experimentation, taken from the Galilean method, Vallisneri uses real experiences, an attributes them the fundamental role needed to observe nature. Vallisneri reveals the baselessness of many theories handed down from antiquity with irony and lightness. The book takes the reader, accompanied by his son Tonino and the young Cencia, to meet a somewhat bizarre man who never stops working. This man, a great scientist, is dedicated to making everyone aware of the wonderful world of nature. The book included in-depth information on Vallisneri, his method of investigation, his scientific discoveries, and his precious collections that gave life to the museums of the University of Padua.


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