Giuseppe Moruzzi was born in Campagnola Emilia, a small town near Reggio Emilia, Italy, son of Giovanni Moruzzi and Bianca Carbonieri. He grew up in Parma, where his father was a general medical practitioner [2]. A lover of history and literature, he was not thinking of medical studies during his high-school years. Eventually, considering the difficult economic situation of Italy in the late 1920s, he chose medicine because it would be easier to find a job in medicine than in the humanities. By this choice he also carried on his family tradition, which started with his great-grandfather, professor of general pathology in Parma during the 1840s [8], and continued with his uncle, collaborator of Jean-Martin Charcot.
