composer and conductor Rita Vittadini (1914 – 2000), gymnast Camillo Zemi (1898 – 1959), discus thrower and hammer thrower Max Pezzali (1967), singer and songwriter People who have lived in Pavia include: St. Alexander Sauli (1591–1592), Bishop of Pavia Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), scientist and inventor of the battery Simion Bărnuțiu (1808–1864), philosopher and politician Giacomo Trecourt (1812-1882), Italian painter Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), biologist and Nobel laureate Giovanni de Ventura (fl. 1479), plague doctor Riccardo Pampuri (1897–1930), saint and medical doctor Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857), national poet of Greece Zaira Ollano (1904–1997), physicist Dante Troisi (1920–1989), writer and judge Among the illustrious scholars who studied or taught at the University of Pavia, the following are at least worth remembering: playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), Gerolamo Cardano, mathematician Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733), Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta the inventor of the battery, biologist and physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799), anatomist Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832), physician Carlo Forlanini (1847-1918), the Nobel laureate biologist Camillo Golgi, the Nobel laureate chemist Giulio Natta (1903-1979) and Emanuele Severino (1929-2020), one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers. See also Botanical Garden of Pavia Pavese Cimitero Monumentale di Pavia (Wikimedia Commons) Footnotes Works cited Arnaldi, Girolamo. Italy and Its Invaders. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. Print. Christie, Neil. The Lombards The Ancient Longobards. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell Inc., 1995. Print. Geary, Patrick J. Readings in Medieval History, vol. 1 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Print. Moorhead, John. Theoderic in Italy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Print. Paul the Deacon. History of the Lombards. Translated by William Dudley Foulke, edited by Edward Peters. Originally published in 1907 by the University of Pennsylvania as History of the Langobards. Scott, Leader. The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild. London: S, Low, Marston and Company, 1899. Print. Print. Wickham, Chris. Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society 400 –1000. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1981. Print. Further reading Published in the 19th century Published in the 20th century External links Pavia – A historical city worth discovering Pavia on the web Burial sites of the House of Wessex Castles in Italy Cities and towns in Lombardy Former capitals of Italy Populated places on the Ticino (river)