Birth and Development of Bologna Nephrology School with Vittorio Bonomini E Pietro Zucchelli

In the years 50th the Nephrology was born in Italy. Among the protagonists of those years, there were Vittorio Bonomini and Pietro Zucchelli. In Bologna, they created the school of Nephrology of great national and international importance that has generated so many distinguished pupils. In the 60s the author joined the school as a student and then as an assistant and he describes life at university at the time of one of the last barons: Domenico Campanacci. Moreover it is illustrated the adventurous birth and then the swirling development of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis under the guidance of Bonomini and Zucchelli.This story pays tribute to those two charismatic geniuses and masters of nephrology.

Keywords: History of nephrology. History of dialysis. Artificial kidney. Peritoneal dialysis.