Icilio Guareschi

Icilio Guareschi (; 24 December 1847 – 20 June 1918) was an Italian chemist.

Life and career Icilio Guareschi studied at the University of Bologna and received his Ph.D there in 1871. He became professor at the University of Siena and in 1879 at the University of Turin, where he worked until his death in 1918.

Guareschi worked in the field of organic chemistry, pharmacy, toxicology and the history and chemistry. In 1894, he discovered a reaction to synthesise 2-Pyridones, today known as the Guareschi-Thorpe condensation.