Filippo Lussana

Filippo Lussana was an Italian physiologist. In his medical research he dealt with the laws of nutrition, functions of the nervous system, cerebral localization, gustatory innervation, the relationship between touch and pain, and the causes of dizziness, and pellagra. Lussana was the author of more than two hundred scientific publications, receiving two gold medals from the Royal Society of Medical Sciences and Natural Sciences in Brussels and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, for his studies on Fiber and blood and Monograph on the encephalic centers.

Filippo Lussana was born in Cenate Sopra, in Valpredina onSeptember 1820, son of Felice Lussana and Barbara Epis. His home town was in the province of Bergamo, at that time in the Habsburg Kingdom of LombardyVenetia. After elementary school, he attended the Angelo Mai college in Clusone in Val Seriana, where he obtained a solid foundation of Latin and classical culture. On the death of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1835, the Rhetoric topic assigned to the pupils was entitled The Roman Caesar and the Austrian Caesar. Aged fifteen, Lussana wrote The triumphant Roman Caesar forgave all his enemies the Austrian Caesar imprisoned them in Spielberg. For such a sacrilegious abuse of authority he was sentenced to imprisonment in his room for three days on a diet of bread and water. An hour later he was sent to the rector Cantelli, who asked him where these ideas had come from. Lussana replied that he had read Le mie prigioni by Silvio Pellico, at which the rector forgave the precociou

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