di Barbara Balcon The recently built Castiglioni Residence Hall is named after the street where it is located, Via Luigi Castiglioni. Luigi Castiglioni was born in Milan, on October 3, 1757, and his mother was Teresa Verri, sister of…
Lady Javotte Bocconi: a special friend of our University
by Barbara Balcon After having discovered who the streets and squares of our campus are named after (in case you have missed it: Wilhelm Röntgen, Angelo Sraffa, Ulisse Gobbi and Roberto Sarfatti), let’s get to know another part of…
di Barbara Balcon Via Sarfatti 25 (also known as “Leoni”) is the heart of our campus, a place where thousands and thousands of Bocconi students have studied and walked between the Lions on the day of their graduation. The…
di Barbara Balcon Ulisse Gobbi (Milan, 10/01/1859 – Genoa, 21/03/1940) was an Italian economist and Rector of Bocconi University (1930-34). He was the chairman of the Lombard Institute of Science and Literature (1928-30) and also a Commander of the…
di Barbara Balcon Our beloved Velodromo is a rather new building, but the square where it is located is a place where the past meets the present, as it is named after Angelo Sraffa, who was born on December…
di Barbara Balcon You might have heard of him during your first days at Bocconi when wandering around in search of Aula Magna, or maybe somewhere in the periodic table, but do you really know who he was? Born…
