Born in Udine, Italy, near the Slovenian border, and educated at Turin Polytechnic, Mr. Sacco holds a degree in mechanical engineering.

He obtained his degree in engineering at the Turin Polytechnic in 1903 and in 1905, while serving in the Navy Engineering Corps, took his second degree in naval engineering.

Mr. Bertone, who attended only grade school, held an honorary degree in engineering from the Turin Polytechnic.

He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari.

During his tenure at the Turin Polytechnic, Perucca studied the Volta Effect, measuring with high precision the electronegativity between pairs of dissimilar metals.

A lecturer for many years at the Turin Polytechnic, in 1979 he published a memoir, "Forty Years of Design at Fiat."

The villa was originally designed in 1870 by Juan Alberto Capurro, an engineer trained at the Turin Polytechnic, for the then-owner Dr. Juan Battista Raffo.

Currently, through the 100% control of Virtual Spa, Lumiq is owned by the City of Turin, the Piedmont Region, the Province of Turin, Turin Polytechnic and the University of Turin.

His racing career began in 1966 when Caliri graduated from Turin Polytechnic with a prize-winning thesis on aerodynamics.

The city currently hosts some of Italy's best universities, colleges, academies, lycea and gymnasia, such as the six-century-old University of Turin and the Turin Polytechnic.