Index of items of note in the world of science

All the lemmas concerned with the world of science in Primo Levi’s texts: procedures, machinery, chemical elements, reactions, specialized terminology.

Vitamina

avitaminosi

Copertina di
If This is a Man - The 1947 version

Opere I, p. 123

Pensavo vagamente che potesse giovare contro l’avitaminosi.

Se questo è un uomo - edizione 1958
If This is a Man, 1958 version

Opere I, p. 266

Pensavo vagamente che potesse giovare contro l’avitaminosi.

Opere complete, I, a cura di Marco Belpoliti, Einaudi, 2016
Pagine sparse

Prefazione a L. Caglioti, I due volti della chimica (1979), Opere II, p. 1464

[...] il prigioniero tipico moriva di estenuazione, o di malattie dovute alla fame ed all’avitaminosi, [...]

 

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Bibliographic note

For each occurrence of a word, the title of the text it came from is indicated – followed, in the case of collections, by the title of the essay or story – and the page number, which always refers to the three volumes of the complete works in Italian, Opere Complete (Einaudi, 2016-2018).

In the case of Pagine sparse / Uncollected Stories and Essays, the title of the text is indicated along with the year of publication and the page numbers.

In regard to Opere Complete - III: Conversazioni, interviste, dichiarazioni / Complete Works -III Conversation, interviews, declarations, there are reviews only of the lemmas in the texts that Primo Levi put into writing. Their locations are indicated by the phrase in boldface, Conversazioni e dichiarazioni in forma scritta / Conversations and declarations in written form, followed by the author, the title of the interview and the page numbers.