Protagonists
Lamberto Maffei
is professor emeritus of Neurobiology at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. The former director of the Neuroscience Institute at CNR, he was president of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei from 2009 to 2015. He is currently its vice-president. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books on popular science include: La visione: dalla neurofisiologia alla psicologia (with L. Mecacci, Mondadori, 1979), Arte e cervello (with A. Fiorentini, Zanichelli, 1998, 2008), Il mondo del cervello (Laterza, 1998). The publishing house Il Mulino has released his books La libertà di essere diversi (2011), Elogio della lentezza (2014), Elogio della ribellione (2016).