The Feltrinelli Prize (from the Italian "Premio Feltrinelli", also known as "International Feltrinelli Prize" or "Antonio Feltrinelli Prize") is an award for achievement in the

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

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literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

, philosophy,

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, and physical and

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s. Administered by the Antonio Feltrinelli Fund, the award comes with a monetary grant ranging between €50,000 and €250,000, a certificate, and a gold medal. The prize is awarded, both nationally and internationally, once every five years in each field by Italy's

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. A further prize is awarded periodically for an exceptional enterprise in moral and humanitarian value. Considered to be Italy's most distinguished scientific society, the organization was founded in 1603 and included

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He wa ...

among its first members.

Award winners

Source: * 1956 (Mathematics) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 1.500.000) ***

Beppo Levi Beppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 28 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-level academic articles and books, not only on mathematics, but also on physics, history, philosophy, and pedagogy. Levi was a member of the Bologna Aca ...

* 1957 (Literature) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 5.000.000) *** Antonio Baldini *** Virgilio Giotti ***

Vasco Pratolini Vasco Pratolini (19 October 1913 – 12 January 1991) was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Biography Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the l ...

** ''International Prize'' (L. 20.000.000) *** Wystan Hugh Auden ***

Aldo Palazzeschi Aldo Palazzeschi (; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. Biography He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's direction, ...

* 1962 (Literature) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' *** Bruno Cicognani *** Giuseppe De Robertis ***

John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...

***

Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements o ...

*** Camillo Sbarbaro ** ''International Prize'' ***

Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and works Early years Montale was born in Genoa. His family were che ...

* 1963 (Arts) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 5.000.000) *** Painting:

Mino Maccari Mino Maccari (24 November 1898 – 16 June 1989) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad an ...

*** Music:

Giorgio Federico Ghedini Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 189225 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella ''Billy Budd'' by Herman Melville. Life Ghedini was born in Cuneo i ...

*** Cinema:

Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, stage director, and screenwriter. A major figure of Italian art and culture in the mid-20th century, Visconti was one of the ...

** ''International Prize'' *** Sculpture: Henry Moore * 1964 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' (L. 25.000.000) *** Experimental medicine: Wallace O. Fenn *** Applied medical and surgical sciences:

Albert Sabin Albert Bruce Sabin ( ; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–72, he served as th ...

* 1966 (Physics, math and natural sciences) **''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 5.000.000) *** Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications:

Guido Stampacchia Guido Stampacchia (26 March 1922 – 27 April 1978) was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.. Life and acade ...

*** Physics, Chemistry and Applications:

Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Bròzolo (Milano, 12 October 1919 – Pisa, 23 August 2019) was an Italian theoretical physicist Life and career Graduated in Physics at University of Turin in 1943 under Enrico Persico, he started his academic c ...

***Biology and Applications:

Vittorio Capraro Vittorio is an Italian male given name which has roots from the Byzantine-Bulgarian name Victor. People with the given name Vittorio include: * Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, pretender to the former Kingdom of Italy * Vittorio Adorni, pr ...

**''International Prize'' (L. 20.000.000) ***Geology: Harry Harry Hammond Hess * 1972 (Literature) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 10.000.000) *** Narration:

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...

*** History and criticism of literary language: Italo Siciliano *** Theory and history of literary language: Gianfranco Folena *** Poetry:

Vittorio Sereni Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its ...

** ''International Prize'' (L. 20.000.000) *** Theatre:

Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo (; 24 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works ''Filumena Marturano'' and '' Napoli Milionaria''. Consid ...

* 1981 ** ''International Prize'' (L. 100.000.000) ***

Sol Spiegelman Sol Spiegelman (December 14, 1914 – January 21, 1983) was an American molecular biologist. He developed the technique of nucleic acid hybridization, which helped to lay the groundwork for advances in recombinant DNA technology. Early life and ...

* 1984 (Medicine) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 25.000.000) *** Ruggero Ceppellini ** ''International Prize'' (L. 100.000.000) *** Jérôme Lejeune *** Robert Allan Weinberg * 1986 (Physical, mathematical and natural sciences) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 20.000.000) *** Mathematics: Lucilla Bassotti,

Claudio Procesi Claudio Procesi (born 31 March 1941 in Rome) is an Italian mathematician, known for works in algebra and representation theory. Career Procesi studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he received his degree (Laurea) in 1963. In 1966 he ...

*** Astronomy, geodesy and geophysics: Fernando Sansò *** Physics and chemistry:

Giorgio Parisi Giorgio Parisi (born 4 August 1948) is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton de ...

, Alessandro Ballio, Emilio Gatti *** Geology and paleontology: Maria Bianca Cita Sironi *** Biological science: Lilia Alberghina, Luciano Bullini, Pietro Calissano ** ''International Prize'' (L. 100.000.000) *** Chemistry: Alan Battersby * 1989 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' (L. 100.000.000) *** Giuseppe Attardi * 1990 ** ''International Prize'' (L. 150.000.000) ***

Robert Roswell Palmer Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, ''The Age of the Democratic Revolutio ...

* 1991 ** ''International Prize'' (L. 150.000.000) ***

Alfred Edward Ringwood Alfred Edward "Ted" Ringwood FRS FAA (19 April 1930 – 12 November 1993) was an Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist, and the 1988 recipient of the Wollaston Medal. The mineral ringwoodite is named after him. Early life and ...

* 1992 (Literature) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (L. 50.000.000) ***

Luciano Anceschi Luciano Anceschi (; February 20, 1911 in Milan – May 2, 1995 in Bologna) was an Italian literary critic and essayist. A pupil of Antonio Banfi, with whom he graduated in philosophy in 1933, he taught aesthetics at the Faculty of Humaniti ...

** ''International Prize'' (L. 200.000.000) *** John Ashbery * 1993 (Arts) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens (L. 50.000.000)'' ***

Emilio Vedova Emilio Vedova (9 August 1919 – 25 October 2006) was a modern Italian painter. He is considered one of the most important artists to emerge from Italy's artistic scene, Arte Informale. Early life Vedova was born in Venice into a working-cl ...

* 1995 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens (L. 100.000.000)'' ***

Sebastiano Timpanaro Sebastiano Timpanaro (September 5, 1923 in Parma – November 26, 2000 in Florence) was an Italian classical philologist, essayist, and literary critic. He was also a long-time Marxist who made important contributions to left-wing political c ...

* 1998 (Arts) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens (L. 125.000.000)'' *** Painting: Carlo Maria Mariani *** Cinema: Michelangelo Antonioni *** Sculpture: Giuliano Vangi *** Theatre: Luigi Squarzina ** ''International Prize (L. 300.000.000)'' *** Architecture: José Rafael Moneo Valles * 1999 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' (L. 300.000.000) ***

Arvid Carlsson Arvid Carlsson (25 January 1923 – 29 June 2018) was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine, Carlsson was awarded the Nobe ...

* 2002 (Literature) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (€ 65.000) *** Piero Boitani ***

Daniele Del Giudice Daniele Del Giudice (11 January 1949 – 2 September 2021) was an Italian author and lecturer. He lived in Venice, where he taught theatrical literature at the University Iuav of Venice. Biography Born in Rome in 1949, Del Giudice researched av ...

* 2003 (Arts) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens (€ 65.000)'' *** Cinema: Ermanno Olmi *** Photography: Mimmo Jodice *** Orchestra direction: Riccardo Chailly *** Engraving: Guido Strazza ** ''International Prize (€ 250.000)'' *** Music:

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

* 2004 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) *** Gottfried Schatz * 2006 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (€ 65.000) ***

Alberto Bressan Alberto Bressan (born 15 June 1956) is an Italian mathematician at Penn State University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis including hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, impulsive control of Lagrangian systems, and non ...

*** Giovanni Jona-Lasinio ** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) ***

Saul Perlmutter Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ...

* 2007 (Literature) ** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) *** Brian Stock * 2008 (Arts) ** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) ***

Juha Leiviskä Juha Ilmari Leiviskä (born 17 March 1936 in Helsinki) is a prominent Finnish architect and designer. He is especially known for his churches and other sacral buildings. Life and career The son of engineer Toivo Ilmari Leiviskä and teacher ...

* 2009 (Medicine) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (€ 65.000) ***

Rino Rappuoli Rino Rappuoli is head of vaccine research and development (R&D) at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Vaccines. Previously, he has served as visiting scientist at Rockefeller University and Harvard Medical School and held roles at Sclavo, Vaccine Research and C ...

** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) *** Ira Pastan * 2011 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' ***

Christopher Hacon Christopher Derek Hacon (born 14 February 1970) is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities. He is currently distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Utah where he holds a Presidential Endowed Chair. His res ...

* 2014 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' ***

Chris Dobson Sir Christopher Martin Dobson (8 October 1949 – 8 September 2019) was a British chemist, who was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Maste ...

* 2016 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' *** Alberto Mantovani

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