Ramon y Cajal and the 1934 Liberation of Giuseppe Levi: two new documents.

摘要

Last year we published an article under the title "Science and Politics: Ramon y Cajal's Intervention in Giuseppe Levi's 1934 Liberation." In that article we tried to summarize the episode of the imprisonment of the Italian scientist Giuseppe Levi in 1934 and the fundamental role that Santiago Ramon y Cajal played in the subsequent freeing of his colleague (Santaren & Sanchez-Ron, 2009). The account, described in a certain detail, was based on three letters, the texts of which were completely transcribed and commented on in our article. In the first, sent on April 9, 1934, Fernando de Castro announced to Santiago Ramon y Cajal, among other recipients, the imprisonment of Giuseppe Levi and urged him to intercede for his liberation. The second document described Ramon y Cajal's rapid response in the form of a letter to the Spanish Ambassador in Rome asking for the liberation of his colleague. And finally we reported a third letter, dated April 25, 1934, in which Justo Gomez Ocerin communicated to Ramon y Cajal the freeing of Giuseppe Levi. These three documents constituted all the information available to us at that time concerning the history of the imprisonment and liberation of Giuseppe Levi.