EIMA’s Tribute to Prof. Enzo Manfredi: A Point Of Reference For Agricultural Mechanics

11 November 2024, Bologna: At EIMA, the University of Bologna and the National Academy of Agriculture pay homage to Professor Enzo Manfredi on the occasion of his 100th birthday. An instructor, first in Padua, and then, for thirty years in Bologna, his studies and his teachings made him a point of reference for the modernization of agricultural mechanics.

“I was always out in the fields”. That is how he began a video link made from his home to greet the teachers, students and entrepreneurs who for many years have seen in him a fundamental point of reference for the modernization of agricultural mechanics. Professor Enzo Manfredi celebrated his 100th birthday and the University of Bologna and the National Academy of Agriculture wanted to take advantage of the 46th annual international exhibition of agricultural and gardening machinery which is taking place right now at the Bologna Trade Fair, to pay homage to him and celebrate him. “Since the 1950s, the world of machinery has been at the center of the modernization of agriculture,” Manfredi stated, urging young people to engage with new research horizons, including those regarding biofuels.

Manfredi, who recalled his rural origins, graduated from the University of Florence in Civil Engineering in 1959, and then became a collaborator, student and assistant of Giuseppe Stefanelli, who was responsible for the birth and development of agricultural mechanics in Italy. Manfredi inherited his legacy, working on new lines of research in the sector that he defined, including the prefiguring of new challenges awaiting agricultural machinery manufacturers. He began teaching at the University of Padua in 1958, and then returned to Bologna in 1966, where he taught at the Alma Mater until his retirement in 1997. “Professionally,” he said, “I have been dealing with the varied agricultural world of my origins for nearly half a century”.

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