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In 1861, Chemistry at Pisa was entering a phase of renewal under Professor S. De Luca. He has a place not only in the history of chemistry in Italy but also in the literature of the country through a short story by Fucini. His successor was P. Tassinari, who as a young man had been a pioneer in photography and who at Pisa enabled all students to do practical work in the laboratory. During his tenure, Pisa hosted two major foreign chemists: the German U. Schiff and the Russian A. Borodin, although the latter is far more famous as a composer. F. Sestini, the founder of Italian Photochemistry, was also working another faculty at Pisa at that time. R. Nasini, the founder of the Italian School of Physical Chemistry, was Professor from 1907 until 1929 and during his tenure in 1918 Marie Curie made Pisa her base for a three-week scientific mission she had been given by the Italian government. The Chair of Physical Chemistry was then held by A. Mazzucchelli from 1928 until 1935. The two Institutes of Chemistry at Pisa were headed by Nasini's successor C. Porlezza, a figure who was practically chemistry incarnate at Pisa until 1955 and in relation to whom mention is made of two students killed in the Italian civil war, one pro and one anti-Fascist. The "post-Porlezza" period saw an increase in the Institutes of Chemistry at Pisa with the arrival of Organic Chemistry, Organic Industrial Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry all of which were incorporated into the current Department in 1985. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]