The Italian physician and biologist Camillo Golgi was born in Corteno (now Corteno Golgi) a tiny village in northern Lumbardy. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Pavia in 1865 with a thesis on somatic and hereditary factors in mental illness. Thereafter he became assistant at the Hospital of San Matteo where he worked at the psychiatric clinic headed by Cesare Lombroso. Meanwhile Golgi began to learn histological techniques under the direction of Giulio Bizzozero at the …