Table of Contents:
  • Origins of a universalist
  • Weimar years : these are the things I remember
  • Completing medical studies in Frankfurt
  • Gustav Embden, a model mentor
  • Great days, but looming danger
  • And then this bum came along : leaving Germany
  • Stockholm with Von Euler
  • Adventures on the return to beloved Italy
  • Crossing to the new world : Queen's University
  • Joy once more in Italy : a fateful interlude
  • New York, P. A. Levene and the Rockefeller Institute
  • St. Louis with the Coris-- On to Boston : the odyssey ends
  • Multiple scientific paths in Boston
  • Mature years, honors, and reflections.