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Sergio Olivotti

Elena — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:17:53 +0000

Sergio Olivotti is an illustrator, author, and graphic designer. His major works include Si fa presto a dire elefante (Rizzoli, 2021); Metamorfosi (Sabìr, 2022); Ma che storia è? (Clichy, 2023); Il genio della musica (Clichy, 2024); the essay Creativologia (Sabìr, 2024); and Se fossi Ugo (written and illustrated with Giulietta Pastorino, Corraini, 2024), winner of the 2025 Andersen Prize.

Marco Ortenzi

Festival della Mente — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:41:13 +0000

Marco Ortenzi, PhD in Industrial Chemistry, specializes in the synthesis and development of new polymer-based materials. He has been working in various capacities for more than fifteen years with the Chemistry Department of the University of Milan, where he carries out research activities, and with companies to study innovative materials and processes that can be applied in different industrial sectors.

Umberto Orsini

Festival della Mente — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:18:50 +0000

Umberto Orsini debucts in theatre by the age of 22 with the Compagnia dei Giovani and afterwards he worked along with major Italian directors. For the cinema, his interpretations in La caduta degli dei and Ludwig, both directed by Luchino Visconti, are well known. For television he interpreted with success Ivan of the Karamazov’s Brothers, directed by Sandro Bolchi. His most recent theatrical work is Il costruttore Solness by Ibsen, directed by Alessandro Serra. In 2019 he published his autobiography Sold out (Laterza).

Silvio Orlando

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:16 +0000

is a very popular Neapolitan stage and screen actor and director. An appreciated interpreter of the vices and virtues of the man in the street, Orlando has worked under some of Italy’s best authors and directors: G. Salvatores in Kamikazen-Ultima notte a Milano and Nirvana; N. Moretti in Palombella rossa, Aprile (that won him the 1998 David di Donatello award for best actor in a supporting role), La stanza del figlio, Il Caimano; D. Lucchetti in Il portaborse, La scuola; C. Mazzacurati in Un'altra vita and La passione; P. Virzì in Ferie d'agosto; S. Citti in I magi randagi; G. Piccioni in Luce dei miei occhi; A. Grimaldi in Caos calmo. In 2008, under the direction of P. Avati, he won the Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival for his interpretation of the father in Il papà di Giovanna. His success in moving pictures, however, has not led him to neglect the stage, where he continues his acclaimed career.

Anna Ottani Cavina

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:16 +0000

a long-time professor of Art history at the University of Bologna, and a visiting professor at Yale, Brown and Columbia University, is the creator and director of Fondazione Federico Zeri. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe. Her books and exhibition catalogues include: Carlo Saraceni (1968), Il Settecento e l’antico (1982), I paesaggi della ragione (Einaudi, 1994), Felice Giani (1999), Paysages d’Italie (2001), Montagna, arte e scienza (2003), Geometries of Silence (2004), Granet, Roma e Parigi (2009), Federico Zeri, dietro l’immagine (2009), Terre senz’ombra (Adelphi, 2015). The French government has appointed her with the Légion d’honneur (2001) and the title of Officier des Arts et des Lettres (2011).

Davide Oldani

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:14 +0000

has studied and worked with the world’s greatest cooks, from Gualtiero Marchesi to Alain Ducasse, from Pierre Hermé to Albert Roux. In 2003 he opened up his own restaurant, D’O, in Cornaredo, Milan, that has swiftly become unanimously acclaimed by critics and customers, so much so that waiting lists for a table are now very long. He has taught at the European Design Institute and at Milan’s Catholic University. The City of Milan awarded him its Ambrogino d’Oro prize. He has written Cuoco andata e ritorno (Touring, 2007); La mia cucina pop. L’arte di caramellare i sogni (Rizzoli, 2009).

Moni Ovadia

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:14 +0000

born 1946 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from a Jewish family, studied in Milan where he started his career as a singer and musician; his theatre debut was in 1984 and he has worked with T. Kantor, F. Parenti, G. Marini; in 1990 he created the Theater Orchestra and started his collaboration with CRT Artificio di Milano. His popularity and critical acclaim have been growing ever since; he has made records, acted in movies, taken part in radio shows. Since 2004 he’s at the head of the Mittelfest in Cividale del Friuli. He is always involved in peace and human rights issues. Among his publications, all with Einaudi, are: L’umorismo ebraico in otto lezioni e duecento storielle (1998); L’ebreo che ride (1998); Ballata di fine millennio (1999); Contro l’idolatria (2005); Oylem Goylem (2005); Perchè no? L’ebreo corrosivo (2006); Lavoratori di tutto il mondo ridete (2007); Via a te stesso (2002); L’ebreo che ride (2008).

Fiorella Operto

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:12 +0000

Fiorella Operto deals in science communication and works with Laboratories and Research Centres in Europe and the US. Gianmarco Veruggio is a robotics engineer; he founded the CNR Robotlab and is President of the School of Robotics.

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:12 +0000

is a mathematician, logician and essayist. He has taught Logic at the University of Turin and acted as visiting professor at Cornell University, at the University of Monash in Melbourne, the Academia Sinica in Beijing, the University of Nanjing, the University of Buenos Aires and the Italian Academy at Columbia University. He writes for l’Espresso, Le Scienze and la Repubblica. He has received the Galileo Prize from the Unione Matematica Italiana, the Italgas Prize and the Galileo Literary Award. His books include: Abbasso Euclide (2013), a trilogy on the history of geometry published by Mondadori; Il museo dei numeri (Rizzoli, 2014), Sulle spalle di un gigante (Longanesi, 2014), Il diavolo in cattedra (Einaudi, 2015), Il giro del mondo in 80 pensieri (Rizzoli, 2015). His latest work, Dizionario della stupidità (Rizzoli) will be released in August.

Anna Oliverio Ferraris

Festival della Mente — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:12 +0000

Anna
Oliverio Ferraris, psychologist and psychotherapist,
was born in Biella and studied in Milan and Turin. She moved to Rome in 1970 and
has been professor of Developmental Psychology at La Sapienza University since
1980. She has written essays for the layman, scientific papers and school text
books in which she examines normal and pathological development, education, the
family, school, the emotions involved in communication and relationships with
the media. She has been a member of the Quality Commission for the Rai and the National Bioethics Committee. She is a
contributor to Mente e Cervello, Psicologia Contemporanea, La scuola dell’infanzia,
Prometeo. Her most recent books include: La
forza d’animo (Rizzoli, 2003); TV per
un figlio (Laterza, 2004); con Alberto Oliverio, Le età della mente (Rizzoli, 2004); Psicologia della paura (Bollati Boringhieri, 2007); Piccoli bulli crescono (Rizzoli, 2007).