PreludeIt is a great pleasure for us to contribute to this book dedicated to Alberto Isidori on the occasion of his sixty fifth birthday. It is also, for the first author, the occasion to acknowledge a very long period of useful and pleasant exchange which started in 1973 (bilinear systems) and has continued through the years on various specific subjects.The important contributions of Albereto Isidori in the control of nonlinear systems have had a tremendous impact in the control community. Feedback linearization was one of the important subjects developed by Alberto. While the oscillatory nonlinear system considered in this contribution requires specific techniques for its analysis, still a feedback linearization is used for quenching the oscillations.