Romano Gatto is retired Professor of Mathematics and History of Mathematics at the University of Basilicata, Italy. His scientific interests go to the history and epistemology of science, especially of mathematics. Gatto is author of several works and books concerning Galileo’s mechanics, the Neapolitan Cartesianism, the history of the “irreducible case” of the equations of third degree, the mathematical teaching and the scientific activity of Jesuits, as well as Italian mathematics between 19th and 20th centuries and mechanics in the Renaissance.