This long-awaited biography is a fascinating analysis of Camillo Golgi 's experiments, ideas, and personal life and is welcomed by anyone who has ever learned about his brilliant discoveries in biology but wonde red about the man behind them.

The life of Camillo Golgi was an extraordinary intellectual adventure in three major fields of biology and medicine, namely neuroscience, emerging cell biology, and the new science of medical microbiology.

in 1873, Golgi published the description of a revolutionary histological technique which allowed one, for the first time, to visualize a single nerve cell with all its ramifications, and which could be followed and analyzed even at a great distance from the cell bodies. The so-called "black reaction" (later named the "Golgi method") provided the spark to a truly scientific revolution...