Domenico Cesa-Bianchi (1879-1956), a pupil of Camillo Golgi in Pavia from 1899 to 1904, after his degree, he devoted himself for a long time to morphological studies in Pavia and Frankfurt am Main. He obtained additional teaching in pathological histology in 1909 and in special medical pathology in 1913. From 1909 he moved to the University of Milan, initially medical assistant of Luigi Devoto to the Clinic of Labor, then primary physician in the Ospedale Maggiore (1922) , professor in charge of special medical pathology and finally full professor (1926). Particularly noteworthy are the studies on the clinical diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, on Banti's disease, on the clinical pathology of hemoplasmopathies.