He was an autodidact polymath committed to free secular education. He was an autodidact whose mentors included the scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. A voracious autodidact, he studied mathematics and economics only after he had completed university. Cesare was an avid reader and autodidact. However, despite his stint lecturing at Universities, Burke was an autodidact and a self-taught scholar. He was intellectually curious and described himself as an autodidact. An autodidact, he busied himself with the problems of aeronautics. Jean-Paul Sartre's "Nausea" (1938) depicts, as a secondary character, an autodidact. Collier is a self-declared autodidact. An autodidact, Jochen Gerz began his career in literature and later transitioned to art. Born in Rome, Marchitelli studied guitar and bass as an autodidact. Philips, an autodidact guitarist, played the guitar for "Aha Mella". Samaras was an autodidact who never received a college degree. Born in Naples, Italy, Avitabile started playing saxophone as an autodidact as ten years old. She began her musical career as a 14-year-old girl, as an autodidact on the guitar.