(ANSAmed) - ROME, JULY 4 - An evening adorned by the verses of Mediterranean poets and animated by words and traditional music from southern Italy and the southern parts of the world, was proposed by Radicanto for the award ceremony of the third edition of the international prize 'Lazio between Europe and Mediterranean' held last night on the terrace of Bollettino in the Victorian complex. The ceremony was the closing event of the festival of the same name promoted by the Region of Lazio. The prizes, sculptures in white marble representing the Mediterranean basin and made by Alessandra Porfidia, were awarded by the members of the technical jury chaired by Governor Marrazzo to the seven winners: prominent internationally renowned figures from Mediterranean countries divided in various categories. Professor Rita Levi Montalcini, 1986 Nobel Prize winner for medicine, received the 'Special Marrazzo Prize' - under the clamorous applause of the audience - for her ''constant political and civil commitment in support of democracy and human rights, of the poorest countries and the weakest categories of the population, the poor, the women and the children'' among other things. Apart from the senator, the other winners were: for scientific research, 2004 chemistry Nobel Prize winner, Israeli Aaron Ciechanover; for humanitarian sciences, Portuguese anthropologist Maria Cardeira da Silva; for culture, the director-general of the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage at the Greek Culture Ministry, Vivi Vassilopoulou; for performance, Turkish maestro - music director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Istanbul - Gurer Aykal; and for literature, Moroccan author and sociologist Abdelkebir Khatibi. The award ceremony - hosted by regional councillor for culture Giulia Rodano in the absence of President Marrazzo, who had to attend to a sudden appointment - was characterised by the alternation of moments of reflection and poetry with actor and writer Paola Pitagora, writer and poet Valentino Zeichen, and historian Claudio Rendina.