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 ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, 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 ...

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 Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

, and

physical Physical may refer to: * Physical examination, a regular overall check-up with a doctor * ''Physical'' (Olivia Newton-John album), 1981 ** "Physical" (Olivia Newton-John song) * ''Physical'' (Gabe Gurnsey album) * "Physical" (Alcazar song) (2004) * ...

and

mathematical science The mathematical sciences are a group of areas of study that includes, in addition to mathematics, those academic disciplines that are primarily mathematical in nature but may not be universally considered subfields of mathematics proper. Statist ...

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

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

. 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 ...

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 ...

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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 and ...

*** 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 Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Mo ...

* 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 academ ...

*** 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 academ ...

***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, pro ...

**''International Prize'' (L. 20.000.000) ***Geology: Harry

Harry Hammond Hess Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 – August 25, 1969) was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer in World War II who is considered one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. He is best known for his th ...

* 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 Gianfranco Folena ( 9 April 1920 – 14 February 1992) was an Italian linguist, philologist, and academic. Biography Born in Savigliano in Piedmont in 1920, from a Tuscan family. He attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa along with ...

*** Poetry: Vittorio Sereni ** ''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 Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities, most especially the link between Down Syndrome and trisomy-21 ...

*** 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 densit ...

, 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 Sir Alan Rushton Battersby (4 March 1925 – 10 February 2018) was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes invo ...

* 1989 (Medicine) ** ''International Prize'' (L. 100.000.000) ***

Giuseppe Attardi Giuseppe Attardi (September 14, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American molecular biologist of Italian origin, a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He made pioneering studies on the human mitochondrial structure ...

* 1990 ** ''International Prize'' (L. 150.000.000) *** Robert Roswell Palmer * 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 Italians, Italian Literary criticism, literary critic and Essay, essayist. A pupil of Antonio Banfi, with whom he graduated in philosophy in 1933, he taught aes ...

** ''International Prize'' (L. 200.000.000) ***

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

* 1993 (Arts) ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens (L. 50.000.000)'' *** Emilio Vedova * 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 Carlo Maria Mariani (25 July 1931 – 19 November 2021) was an Italian painter. Career His paintings are rooted both in neoclassicist theory and modernism. In the 1970s he defended his choice of medium from attacks by art critics by making para ...

*** Cinema:

Michelangelo Antonioni Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...

*** Sculpture:

Giuliano Vangi Giuliano Vangi (born March 13, 1931) is an Italian sculptor. He received the Praemium Imperiale in the sculpture category. In 2002, he was considered for the Nobel Prize of Arts. Vangi was born in Barberino di Mugello and studied in the Istituto ...

*** 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 Nob ...

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

Piero Boitani Piero Boitani (born 1947) is an Italian literary critic. Life Born in Rome, Boitani received his Ph.D. from Cambridge while teaching there and has taught in the University of Pescara and University of Perugia. He is Professor Emeritus of Compar ...

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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 Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)Lane, John Francis (May 7, 2018).Ermanno Olmi obituary. ''The Guardian''. theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018. was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Olmi was born to a Catholic ...

*** Photography: Mimmo Jodice *** Orchestra direction:

Riccardo Chailly Riccardo Chailly (, ; born 20 February 1953) is an Italian conductor. He is currently music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, since 2016, and music director of La Scala, since 2017. Prior to this, he held chief conducting positio ...

*** 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 Gottfried Schatz (18 August 1936 – 1 October 2015) was a Swiss-Austrian biochemist. Life and career Schatz was born in Strem. Upon obtaining his PhD in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Graz (Austria), he did postdoctoral work ...

* 2006 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' (€ 65.000) *** Alberto Bressan *** 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 ** ''International Prize'' (€ 250.000) ***

Ira Pastan Ira Pastan (born in Winthrop, Massachusetts June 1, 1931) is an American scientist at the National Cancer Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the AAAS and the American Society of Microbiology. In 2009, he ...

* 2011 ** ''Prize reserved for Italian citizens'' *** Christopher Hacon * 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 Mast ...

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

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