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Mussardo, Giuseppe

Giuseppe Mussardo is full professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA. Author of several articles on the history of science and documentary films, he was awarded the 2013 Prize of Società Italiana di Fisica for Science Dissemination. His previous book, The ABC’s of Science (L’alfabeto della scienza), has been translated by Springer.



Gaspare Polizzi is a professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Pisa and is the author of many books. He studies the relation between art and science, and the history of scientific and philosophical thinking.


Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo</a>

Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds. If Polo was the “ordinary genius” of the XIII century, the designation of “sorcerer genius” must go to Alighieri, the man with encyclopedic wisdom, at ease with his era’s philosophy, theology, and science.

Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo</a>

Travelling with Dante Alighieri and Marco Polo

700 years after Dante Alighieri's death, this book intertwines the voice of the great poet with that of an exceptional contemporary, Marco Polo, who was equally curious about the geography of both earthly and celestial worlds. If Polo was the “ordinary genius” of the XIII century, the designation of “sorcerer genius” must go to Alighieri, the man with encyclopedic wisdom, at ease with his era’s philosophy, theology, and science.