Giuseppe Levi was an Italian anatomist and histologist, professor of human anatomy at the universities of Sassari, Palermo and Turin. He was born on October 14, 1872, in Trieste to Jewish parents, Michele Levi and Emma Perugia. He was married to Lidia Tanzi and had five children: Gino, Mario, Alberto, Paola, and writer Natalia Ginzburg, who described her father's personality in the successful Italian book Lessico famigliare (1963).