Le tue antenate (Your ancestors)

 

Each of us needs role models and we can find them in different contexts: family, friends, school, and books (Yes, books!🙌)

We can learn a lot from biographies. Behind every life, there is a message that we can capture, a seed from which we can build our architecture of thoughts.

Biographies are inspiring and without our past, we won't be able to build our future. We are "standing on the shoulders of our giants" (here is the Wiki link to know more about this quote Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia)

Ok, is all fantastic...but there's a big GAP here. 

Throughout history, we learned about conquerors, emperors, kings, and inventors with a thing in common: all of them were males. 

WHERE WERE ALL THE WOMEN?

I would like to start a section about history, society, and science with a link: biographies of our female ancestors. 

My guide will be a small book: "Le tue antenate" ( RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI - LE TUE: Levi-Montalcini, Rita, Tripodi, Giuseppina: 9788893483049: Amazon.com: Books ).

Most of you maybe don't know that Rita Levi Montalcini, a scientist, a role model, and a Nobel Prize (Rita Levi-Montalcini - Facts (nobelprize.org) ), wrote about other role models, most often forgotten.

Unfortunately, this book is in Italian, but don't be sad...here I will try to extrapolate some biographies and, together, we will discover another side of our past.

So, enjoy this journey!👍

S.