In September 1930 Levi entered the Massimo d'Azeglio Royal Gymnasium a year ahead of normal entrance requirements. His father remained in the city, partly because of his dislike of the rural life, but also because of his infidelities.

The children spent summers with their mother in the Waldensian valleys southwest of Turin, where Rina rented a farmhouse. His school record includes long periods of absence during which he was tutored at home, at first by Emilia Glauda and then by Marisa Zini, daughter of philosopher Zino Zini. A thin and delicate child, he was shy and considered himself ugly he excelled academically. In 1925 he entered the Felice Rignon primary school in Turin. In 1921 Anna Maria, Levi's sister, was born he remained close to her all her life. On their wedding day, Rina's father, Cesare Luzzati, gave Rina the apartment at Corso Re Umberto, where Primo Levi lived for almost his entire life. The marriage between Rina and Cesare had been arranged by Rina's father. She too was an avid reader, played the piano, and spoke fluent French. Levi's mother, Ester, known to everyone as Rina, was well educated, having attended the Istituto Maria Letizia. Cesare was an avid reader and autodidact. His father, Cesare, worked for the manufacturing firm Ganz and spent much of his time working abroad in Hungary, where Ganz was based. Levi was born in 1919 in Turin, Italy, at Corso Re Umberto 75, into a liberal Jewish family. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some, after careful consideration, have suggested that the fall was accidental because he left no suicide note, there were no witnesses, and he was on medication that could have affected his blood pressure and caused him to fall accidentally. Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing.

His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. Primo Michele Levi ( Italian: 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor.

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