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
Maria Floriani Squarciapino
3,000,000 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
Web links
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 Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lincei.it
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↑ 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
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↑ 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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