Antonio Feltrinelli Prize

The Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (Italian: Premio Feltrinelli ) is considered the highest Italian science and culture prize.

The award goes back to a testamentary foundation of the patron and artist Antonio Feltrinelli , who died in 1942 . He had bequeathed a large part of his fortune to the Accademia d'Italia. After the collapse of Italian fascism, the Academy of the Lynx ( Accademia dei Lincei ) took over their duties and has awarded the prizes ever since.

The Premio Feltrinelli is awarded annually alternately for achievements in one of the following areas: humanities (Scienze morali e storiche) , natural sciences (Scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali) , literature (Lettere) , art (Arti) , medicine (Medicina) . One prize is reserved for Italians, a higher prize (also) for foreigners. A special prize for a work of high moral and humanitarian value (per un'impresa eccezionale di alto valore morale e umanitario) was initially awarded approximately every five years, and most recently (almost) every year.

With prize money of € 250,000 (as of 2010), the international Feltrinelli Prize is one of the most highly endowed prizes in the world.

Award winners

1950-1960

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
1950	Humanities	Paola Zancani Montuoro Umberto Zanotti Bianco	1,000,000 lire
1951	Natural sciences	Gleb Wataghin Vincenzo Diamare	1,000,000 lire	Jacques Hadamard	3,000,000 lire
1952	literature	Marino Moretti Emilio Cecchi Ferdinando Neri	1,000,000 lire	Thomas Mann Ramón Menéndez Pidal	5,000,000 lire
1953	art	Filippo de Pisis Giacomo Manzú Mario Ridolfi Lorenzo Perosi Fausto Torrefranca	1,000,000 lire	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Igor Stravinsky Marino Marini (awarded in 1954)	5,000,000 lire
1954	medicine	Alberto Ascoli Luigi Califano Vittorio Erspamer Massimiliano Aloisi	1,000,000 lire	Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig Harold Randall Griffith and Archibald Ross McIntyre	5,000,000 lire	Associazione nazionale per gli interesci del mezzogiorno d'Italia (National Society for the Interests of Southern Italy)	10,000,000 lire
1955	Humanities	Gianfranco Contini and Francesco Gabrieli Federico Chabod and Nicola Turchi Tullio Ascarelli and Salvatore Pugliatti Augusto Guzzo and Bruno Nardi Gaetano Pieraccini and Livio Livi	1,000,000 lire	Leo Spitzer Gaetano Salvemini Ernst Rabel Werner Jaeger Arthur Cecil Pigou	5,000,000 lire
1956	Natural sciences	Beppo Levi Bruno Finzi Livio Gratton Pietro Caloi Antonio Rostagni Gino Bozza Giovanni Merla Paolo Gallitelli Francesco D'Amato Giuseppe Moruzzi	1,500,000 lire	Solomon Lefschetz Sydney Chapman Giuseppe Occhialini Bruno Sander Ross Granville Harrison	5,000,000 lire
1957	literature	Antonio Baldini Virgilio Giotti Vasco Pratolini	5,000,000 lire	Wystan Hugh Auden Aldo Palazzeschi	20,000,000 lire
1958	art	Mirko Basaldella Giovanni Michelucci Giulio Carlo Argan and Cesare Brandi (awarded in 1959)	5,000,000 lire	Georges Braque Ildebrando Pizzetti	20,000,000 lire
1959	medicine	Angelo Bairati Giovanni di Guglielmo Alessandro Rossi-Fanelli	5,000,000 lire	Gustav Ramon	20,000,000 lire	Unione nazionale per la lotta contro l'Analfabetismo (National Union for the Fight against Illiteracy)	5,000,000 lire
1960	Humanities	Mario Praz Arnaldo Momigliano Guido Calogero	5,000,000 lire	Hans Kelsen Ragnar Frisch (awarded in 1961)	20,000,000 lire

1961-1970

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
1961	Natural sciences	Francesco G. Tricomi Giampietro Puppi Livio Trevisan	5,000,000 lire	Pierre Auger John Burdon Sanderson Haldane	20,000,000 lire
1962	literature	Bruno Cicognani Giuseppe De Robertis Carlo Emilio Gadda Camillo Sbarbaro	5,000,000 lire	Eugenio Montale	20,000,000 lire
1963	art	Mino Maccari Giorgio Federico Ghedini Luchino Visconti	5,000,000 lire	Henry Moore	25,000,000 lire
1964	medicine	Antonio Ascenzi Luigi Musajo Enrico Ciaranfi	5,000,000 lire	Wallace O. Fenn Albert Bruce Sabin	25,000,000 lire
1965	Humanities	Giuseppe Billanovich	5,000,000 lire	John Davidson Beazley	20,000,000 lire
1966	Natural sciences	Guido Stampacchia Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo Vittorio Capraro	5,000,000 lire	Harry Hammond Hess	20,000,000 lire
1967	literature	Carlo Betocchi Giacomo Debenedetti Quintino Cataudella and Ezio Raimondi	5,000,000 lire	John Dos Passos	20,000,000 lire
1968	art	Pericle Fazzini Luigi Moretti Francesco Arcangeli Gian Francesco Malipiero	5,000,000 lire	Pier Luigi Nervi	20,000,000 lire
1969	medicine	Giovanni Moruzzi Giacomo Mottura Oreste Pinotti Giulio Raffaele	5,000,000 lire	Rita Levi Montalcini	20,000,000 lire	Coretta Scott King	10,000,000 lire
1970	Humanities	Giorgio Petrocchi Eugenio Garin Giuseppe De Meo	5,000,000 lire	Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz	20,000,000 lire

In 1969 a “gold medal” was also awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross , the newspaper section Specchio dei tempi and Danilo Dolci .

1971-1980

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
1971	Natural sciences	Aldo Andreotti Giuseppe Colombo Adriano Gozzini Bruno Accordi Pasquale Pasquini	5,000,000 lire	Jean Leray Bruno Rossi	20,000,000 lire
1972	literature	Italo Calvino Italo Siciliano Gianfranco Folena Vittorio Sereni	10,000,000 lire	Eduardo de Filippo	20,000,000 lire
1973	art	Alberto Burri Pier Luigi Cervellati Luigi Dallapiccola Umberto Mastroianni	10,000,000 lire	Richard Krautheimer	20,000,000 lire
1974	medicine	Emilio Agostoni Eraldo Antonini Luigi Donato Ottavio Pompeiano Gaetano Salvatore	10,000,000 lire	Hugh Esmor Huxley	30,000,000 lire	Piccola Casa della Divina Provvidenza "Il Cottolengo" (awarded in 1975)	20,000,000 lire
1975	Humanities	Dinu Adamesteanu and Fabrizio Sergio Donadoni Rolando Quadri Giulio Capodaglio and Giuseppe Di Nardi	10,000,000 lire	Alfred Verdross	30,000,000 lire
1975	Humanities	Maria Floriani Squarciapino	3,000,000 lire	Alfred Verdross	30,000,000 lire
1976	Natural sciences	Enrico Bombieri and Gaetano Fichera Michele Caputo Ferdinando Amman , Massimilla Baldo-Ceolin and Raffaello Fusco Ezio Tongiorgi Giorgio Forti , Emanuele Padua and Leo Pardi	5,000,000 lire	Edgar Bright Wilson	30,000,000 lire
1977	literature	Diego Fabbri Giovanni Macchia	10,000,000 lire	Jorge Guillén	25,000,000 lire
1978	art	Fausto Melotti Raffaello Monterosso Luciano Baldessari	10,000,000 lire	Goffredo Petrassi Joan Miró	25,000,000 lire
1979	medicine	Giovanni Bussolati Mario Umberto Dianzani Guido Guidotti Lamberto Maffei Vittorio Marinozzi	10,000,000 lire	Roderic Alfred Gregory	50,000,000 lire	Fondazione "Giorgio Cini" (awarded in 1980)	50,000,000 lire
1980	Humanities	Cesare Brandi Franco Venturi Sofia Vanni Rovighi Giovanni Pugliese	20,000,000 lire	Roman Jakobson Gottfried Haberler	70,000,000 lire

1981-1990

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
1981	Natural sciences	Edoardo Vesentini and Giulio Maier Enzo Boschi Ettore Fiorini , Piero Pino and Eolo Scrocco Annibale Mottana Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza , Francesco D'Amato and Giulio Lanzavecchia	20,000,000 lire	Sol Spiegelman Michael Francis Atiyah	100,000,000 lire
1982	literature	Anna Banti and Romano Bilenchi Vittore Branca and Carlo Dionisotti Casalone Ignazio Baldelli and Emilio Peruzzi Giorgio Caproni and Biagio Marin	25,000,000 lire	Günter Grass (price not accepted)	100,000,000 lire	Marcello Candia	100,000,000 lire
1983	art	Giuseppe Santomaso and Luigi Veronesi Luigi Cosenza and Riccardo Morandi Federico Mompellio and Antonino Pirrotta Pietro Consagra and Alberto Viani (awarded 1984)	25,000,000 lire	Luigi Piccinato Giacomo Manzù (awarded 1984)	100,000,000 lire
1984	medicine	Doriano Cavallini Ruggero Ceppellini Pietro Melchiorri Fiorenzo Stirpe	25,000,000 lire	Jérôme Lejeune Robert A. Weinberg	100,000,000 lire
1985	Humanities	Ferdinando Castagnoli Ludovico Geymonat Vittore Pisani Sergio Steve	25,000,000 lire	Massimo Mila Franz Wieacker	100,000,000 lire
1986	Natural sciences	Lucilla Bassotti and Claudio Procesi Fernando Sansò Giorgio Parisi , Alessandro Ballio and Emilio Gatti Maria Bianca Cita Sironi Lilia Alberghina , Luciano Bullini and Pietro Calissano	20,000,000 lire	Alan Battersby	100,000,000 lire
1987	literature	Primo Levi Claudio Magris and Antonio La Penna D'Arco Silvio Avalle and Maurizio Vitale Mario Luzi and Andrea Zanzotto	25,000,000 lire	Thomas Bernhard (price not accepted)	100,000,000 lire	Pugwash movement	100,000,000 lire
1988	art	Bruno Munari and Guido Strazza Luciano Berio and Carlo Maria Giulini Roberto Gabetti , Aimaro Oreglia d'Isola and Gino Valle Carlo Lorenzetti and Giuseppe Uncini	25,000,000 lire	Laurence Olivier	100,000,000 lire
1989	medicine	Luigi Belloni Aldo Bernelli Zazzera Ermanno Bonucci Mario Coluzzi Gaetano Crepaldi Luciano Martini Bruno Vondovì Sergio Ottolenghi	25,000,000 lire	Giuseppe Attardi	100,000,000 lire
1990	Humanities	Francesco Mazzoni Massimo Severo Giannini Mario Dal Pra Paolo Sylos Labini Paola Barocchi and Enrico Castelnuovo (awarded in 1991)	40,000,000 lire	Robert Roswell Palmer	150,000,000 lire

1991-2000

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
1991	Natural sciences	Francesco Guglielmino Cesare Chiosi and Alvio Renzini Gianfranco Chiarotti Sergio Carrà Giuliano Ruggieri Floriano Papi	40,000,000 lire	Alfred Edward Ringwood	150,000,000 lire
1992	literature	Giorgio Bassani Attilio Bertolucci Cesare Segre Walter Belardi Luciano Anceschi	50,000,000 lire	John Ashbery	200,000,000 lire	Opera della Divina Provvidenza Madonnina del Grappa	200,000,000 lire
1993	art	Lodovico Barbiano Di Belgiojoso Emilio Vedova Luciano Fabro Emilio Greco Tino Carraro	50,000,000 lire	György Kurtág	200,000,000 lire
1994	medicine	Giuseppe Bianchi Gian Antonio Danieli Salvatore Di Mauro Francesco Giannelli Jacopo Meldolesi	50,000,000 lire	Seymour Benzer	200,000,000 lire
1995	Humanities	Sebastiano Timpanaro Pasquale Voci Enzo Carli Renzo De Felice Siro Lombardini	100,000,000 lire	Hans-Georg Gadamer	300,000,000 lire	St. Mary's Hospital at Lacor in Gulu (Uganda)	300,000,000 lire
1996	Natural sciences	Umberto Mosco Antonio Longinelli Stefano Merlino Giovanni Giudice	125,000,000 lire	Freeman John Dyson	300,000,000 lire
1997	literature	Carlo Ossola Mario Rigoni star Giovanni Giudici Alessandro Perosa	125,000,000 lire	John Chadwick	300,000,000 lire
1998	art	Carlo Maria Mariani Michelangelo Antonioni Giuliano Vangi Luigi Squarzina	125,000,000 lire	José Rafael Moneo Valles	300,000,000 lire
1999	medicine	Giovanni Cavagna (awarded 2000) Tullio Pozzan (awarded 2000) Giacomo Rizzolatti (awarded 2000) Giancarlo Vecchio (awarded 2000)	125,000,000 lire	Arvid Carlsson	300,000,000 lire
2000	Humanities	Bruno D'Agostino Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi Gina Alberto Dell'Acqua Agostino Ziino	125,000,000 lire	Alfredo Stussi	500,000,000 lire	Pamoja Trust , Alex Zanotelli as one of the founders	500,000,000 lire

2001-2010

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize money	Prize winners (international)	Prize money	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
2001	Natural sciences	Giancarlo Tomassini Paolo de Bernardis Enrico Bonatti Lido Porri	125,000,000 lire	Bert W. O'Malley	300,000,000 lire	Operation Smile	500,000,000 lire
2002	literature	Piero Boitani Daniele Del Giudice Valerio Magrelli Maria Teresa Orsi	65,000 euros	Jean Irigoin	250,000 euros	Amici Di Adwa Society	250,000 euros
2003	art	Ermanno Olmi Mimmo Jodice Riccardo Chailly Guido Strazza	65,000 euros	Salvatore Sciarrino	250,000 euros	Emergency	250,000 euros
2004	medicine	Giuseppe Rotilio and Piergiorgio Strata Guido Forni and Cesare Montecucco	65,000 euros	Gottfried Schatz	250,000 euros	Society of Gigi Ghirotti	250,000 euros
2005	Humanities	Lea Ritter Santini Carlo Ginzburg Vincenzo Buonocore Carlo Poni	65,000 euros	William J. Baumol	250,000 euros
2006	Natural sciences	Alberto Bressan Giovanni Jona-Lasinio Angelo Peccerillo Emilia Chiancone (awarded in 2007)	65,000 euros	Saul mother-of-pearl	250,000 euros	L'Agenzia n.1 di Pavia, per Ayamé	250,000 euros
2007	literature	Renata Colorni Luigi Meneghello Luciano Erba Rosanna Bettarini	65,000 euros	Brian Stock	250,000 euros
2008	art	Luca Ronconi Bruno Caruso Eliseo Mattiacci Claudio Verna	65,000 euros	Juha Ilmari Leiviska	250,000 euros	Pia Sociedade de pe. Nicola Mazza in João Pessoa , Paraíba, Brazil	250,000 euros
2009	medicine	Genarro Melino and Adriano Aguzzi Paolo M. Comoglio and Rino Rappuoli	65,000 euros	Ira H. Pastan	250,000 euros	Remedial Education Center in Gaza (awarded in 2010)	250,000 euros
2010	Humanities	Luigi Lehnus Carlo Augusto Viano Antonio Cassese Alessandro Cavalli	65,000 euros	Pierre Gros	250,000 euros	TWAS special award: Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario (ICPAL)	250,000 euros

2011-2019

year	area	Prize winners (Italians)	Prize winners (international)	Prize Winner (Special Prize)	Prize money
2011	Natural sciences	Christopher Derek Hacon Umberto Villante Raimondo Catalano Giulio Cossu	Martin Karplus	Water for Life
2012	literature	Michele Loporcaro Lodovica Braida Alberto Arbasino Remo Ceserani	NN	Progetto GuluNap of the University of Naples Federico II
2013	art	Giorgetto Giugiaro Carlo Cecchi Gianno Carlo Sciolla Fabio Nieder	Michel Jeanneret Manolis Korres	Progetto Ortopedico of the International Red Cross in Afghanistan, directed by Alberto Cairo
2014	medicine	Federico Bussolino Carlo Reggiani Elisabetta Dejana Rosario Rizzuto	Christopher Dobson	Lampedusa municipality	250,000 euros
2015	Humanities	Marina Martelli Christofani Evandro Agazzi Giorgio Cian Giancarlo De Vivo	Simon Michael Schama	L'Associazione Artemisia
2016	Natural sciences	Roberto Ragazzoni Piero Salinari Bruno Coppi Roberta Oberti Alberto Mantovani	Jean Bourgain
2017	literature	Patrizia Cavalli Gian Piero Brunetta Luciano Formisano Alberto Oliverio	Abraham B. Yehoshua	Associazione Missionaria Solidarietà e Sviluppo Fondazione “Francesca Rava”
2017	Natural Sciences, Premi “Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani”	Carlotta Giorgi Alessio Figalli Antonino Milone Francesca Ferlaino	Abraham B. Yehoshua
2018	art	Grazia Varisco Paolo Zermani Luca Francesconi	William Kentridge	Fondazione Luchetta
2018	Humanities, Premi “Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani”	Anna Anguissola Luca Fiorentini Carlotta Rinaldo Carlo D'Ippoliti	William Kentridge	Fondazione Luchetta
2019	medicine	Franco Locatelli Giuseppe Matarese Elena Conti Michela Matteoli	Kari Alitalo	Rete dei Comuni Solidali (ReCoSol) for the project in Riace	250,000 euros
2019	Natural Sciences, Premi “Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani”	Eduardo Mosconi Omar Bartoli Raffaele Dello Ioio Simone Fatichi	Kari Alitalo	Rete dei Comuni Solidali (ReCoSol) for the project in Riace	250,000 euros

Web links

List of winners from 1950–2011 at the Accademia dei Lincei
Annuario della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2011 (“Annual Report of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 2011”, PDF, 2.05 MB), statutes on pages 174–178, list of award winners 1950–2010 on pages 179–211

Individual evidence

↑ Webghighi via POSITIVAmente AC - www.webghighi.com - www.positivamente.org: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - FONDI E FONDAZIONI. (No longer available online.) In: www.lincei.it. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016 ; accessed on December 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Premi 2011. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, June 16, 2011, pp. 4–5 (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
↑ Premi 2012. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, June 22, 2012, pp. 4–5 (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
^ Premi 2013. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, June 21, 2013, p. 6 (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
^ Premi “Antonio Feltrinelli” 2014. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
↑ Premium 2015. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, p. 4 (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
↑ Lincei, assegnati premi "Feltrinelli" 2016 dedicati alla Scienza. In: askanews.it. June 13, 2016, accessed June 22, 2016 .
↑ Premi 2017. (pdf) Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, p. 9 (Italian).; accessed on June 15, 2020
↑ Cerimonia di apertura dell'Anno Accademico 2018-2019 ; accessed on May 6, 2019.
↑ L'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei premia la Fondazione Luchetta. Press release from June 26, 2018; accessed on August 10, 2018.
↑ PREMI “ANTONIO FELTRINELLI” 2019 (PDF; 157kB); accessed on May 6, 2020.
↑ Virginia Piccolillo: Integrazione: il modello Riace Premiato dall'Accademia dei Lincei. In: corriere.it. May 22, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019 (Italian).

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