Architect and Founder of the Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, the Italian equivalent of the National Trust Born in Milan in 1922, Renato Bazzoni graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic and for twenty years served the same university as assistant…
Photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin was born at Santa Margherita Ligure in 1930, but grew up and studied in his home town of Venice. He worked in the tourist trade in Rome, Switzerland, Paris and Venice, and finally settled in…
Historical Linguist Giovan Battista Pellegrini was born at Cencenighe (Belluno) in 1921 and graduated in Italian Literature from Padua University in 1945, the following year specialising in Historial Linguistics. From 1946 to 1963 he taught in the Universities of Pisa,…
Naturalist and Museologist «Respect for Natura stems from knowledge and love. My ‘scale’ of values regarding animals and Nature is this: knowledge, love and respect. I am, if you will grant me the expression, ‘a religious naturalist’» Sandro Ruffo…
Ethnologist, Orientalist and Alpinist Born in Florence in 1912 to an Italian father and English mother, Fosco Maraini graduated in Natural Sciences in 1937, specialising in Anthropology; immediately after, he left for Tibet with the famous Orientalist Giuseppe Tucci,…
Environmentalist Association The Worldwatch Institute, founded in 1974 by Lester Brown and financed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is a private not-for-profit organisation dedicated to research into global environmental issues. In 1984, ten years from its foundation, Brown published the…
Scrittrice e ambientalista Kuki Gallmann nasce a Treviso nel 1943: è figlia dello scrittore, medico, esploratore e archeologo trevigiano Cino Boccazzi. Dopo un matrimonio giovanile di breve durata, tra il 1970 e il 1972 si trasferisce in Kenya al seguito…
Climber and Writer Walter Bonatti was born at Bergamo in 1930. In his youth he practiced extreme alpinism, starting his first ascents in the Lombardy Prealps. At just 19 years old he decided to climb the most difficult routes…
Soldier and Writer Mario Rigoni Stern was born at Asiago in 1921 to a family of ancient origins, well-known traders between the mountains and plain; his father was discharged from the infantry as a subaltern, and his mother was of…
Although unusual, in 2004 the Association decided to assign its Honoris Causa for the XXII edition of the Gambrinus “Giuseppe Mazzotti” Literary Prize to a group formed into a committee and not to an individual, institution or authority. The entire…
Associazione “Premio Letterario Giuseppe Mazzotti” OdV