Medici, or Bonavoglio de' Medici (died 1447), Sicilian physician from Messina and Dienchelele (Naggid or Dayan kelali = Universal Judge of Sicilian Jews); his Hebrew name was Moses Hefez Michele Besso (1873–1955), Swiss-born engineer Caecilius of Calacte, Sicilian rhetorician from modern Caronìa Laura Capón (1907–1977), physicist Enrico Castelnuovo, art historian and medievalist Gino Fano (1871–1952), mathematician Robert Fano (1917–2016), physicist Ugo Fano (1912–2001), physicist Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), historian Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (born 1932), physicist (Jewish father) Alberto Jori (born 1965), philosopher (Jewish mother) Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886–1961), linguist specialized in Semitic languages Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012), neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986) Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), criminologist Salvador Luria (1912–1991), microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969) Samuel David Luzzatto (1800–1865), scholar and poet Franco Modigliani (1918–2003), economist, Nobel Prize (1985) Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987), Italian-born historian Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993), physicist Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999), geneticist Giulio Racah (1909–1965), physicist Bruno Rossi (1905–1993), astrophysicist Asher Salah (born 1967), historian Cesare Segre (1928–2014), linguistics, semiotics Emilio Segrè (1905–1989), physicist, Nobel Prize (1959) pedigree of Sforno Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), economist Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994), architectural historian, critic and theorist Ariel Toaff (born 1942), historian Andrew Viterbi (born 1935), inventor of the Viterbi algorithm Bruno Zevi (1918–2000), architectural critic and historian Mathematicians Emilio Artom (1888–1952), mathematician Eugenio Calabi (born 1923), mathematician Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), mathematician Federigo Enriques (1871–1946), mathematician Gino Fano (1871–1952), mathematician Guido Fubini (1879–1943), mathematician Beppo Levi (1875–1961), mathematician Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941), mathematician Beniamino Segre (1903–1977), mathematician Corrado Segre (1863–1924), mathematician Vito Volterra (1860–1940), mathematician Musicians Mario Ancona (1860–1931), baritone Abramo Basevi (1818–1885), composer and musician Alvise Bassano, musician Anthony Bassano, musician Baptista Bassano, musician Jeronimo Bassano, musician Haim Cipriani (born 1961), violinist and reform rabbi Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968), guitar, classical and synagogal music composer Giacobbe Cervetto (1680–1783), cellist and composer Lorenzo Da Ponte (born Emanuele Conegliano, 1749–1838), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic) Abramo dall'Arpa (died 1566), harpist Abramino dall'Arpa (fl ca. 1577–1593), harpist Aldo Finzi (1897–1945), composer Obadiah the Proselyte, musician Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570–1630), baroque composer Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), conductor (Jewish mother) Leone Sinigaglia (1868–1944), composer Writers Devorà Ascarelli, poet and translator Giorgio Bassani, author Angela Bianchini, fiction writer Riccardo Calimani, fiction writer and historian Enrico Castelnuovo, father of Guido Moses Chayyim Catalan, poet Lorenzo Da Ponte (born Emanuele Conegliano), opera librettist (born Jewish, raised Catholic) Leonardo de Benedetti, physician and writer Manuela Dviri, writer Alain Elkann, writer and journalist, father of John, Lapo and Ginevra