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Nature 422, 467-468 (3 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422467a
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Science academies: Time for an Italian renaissance?
Alison Abbott1
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Italy's national science academy is celebrating its 400th anniversary, in part by cataloguing its wealth of intellectual treasures. But can it reinvent itself as a modern, politically relevant body? Alison Abbott reports.
Entering the Rome headquarters of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is a quintessentially Italian experience. Housed in a Renaissance palace purchased and extended in the 1700s for the family of Pope Clement XII, the country's national science academy is located on the south bank of the River Tiber.
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