2012

Salvatore Settis has served as the Director of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa as well as the President of the Cultural Heritage Board. He was a Warburg Professor at Hamburg University, gave the Isaiah Berlin Lectures in Oxford and the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington, as well as holding the Chair of the Prado Museum in Madrid and the Borromini Chair at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Since 2010, he has been Chairman of the Louvre Museum’s Scientific Advisory Council.

Anna Bonaiuto is a stage actress, has worked with the greatest directors of Italian theatre, from Luca Ronconi to Toni Servillo. She also played unforgettable roles on the silver screen under the direction of Moretti, Corsicato, Avati, Cavani, Martone, and Sorrentino. She has received many awards including the Coppa Volpi (Venice 1993); the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento in 1995, the 2003 Ubu Prize as best Italian actress for Sabato, domenica e lunedì directed by Toni Servillo.

Laura Boella teaches Moral Philosophy and Environmental Ethics at the Department of Philosophy in the State University of Milan. She has dedicated numerous studies to female thought in the 1900s, with a particular focus on Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, María Zambrano and Edith Stein. Her books Il coraggio dell’etica. Per una nuova immaginazione morale (Raffaello Cortina, 2012) and Le imperdonabili.