Metropolitan Opera House in New York City – Cesare Siepi – bass singer who won over audiences worldwide in signature roles such as Don Giovanni and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro Painters edit See also List of Italian painters Ancient Rome edit See also Category Ancient Roman painters Amulius st century AD Roman painter One of the principal painters of the Domus Aurea Furius Dionysius Philocalus th century AD Roman chronograph and painter Pacuvius – BC Roman writer and painter Studius st century BC and st century AD Roman painter of the Augustan period Middle Ages edit See also Category Italian painters Altichiero c – c painter who was the effective founder of the Veronese school and perhaps the most significant northern Italian artist of the th century Bonaventura Berlinghieri fl – painter of the Gothic period His most celebrated work is St Francis of Assisi one of the earliest icons of the Saint Pietro Cavallini c – c painter and mosaicist His surviving works are frescoes in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and in Santa Maria Donna Regina Vecchia Cimabue before – painter and mosaicist Among his works may be cited the Sta Trinità Madonna c and the Madonna Enthroned with St Francis c – Coppo di Marcovaldo fl – painter one of the earliest about whom there is a body of documented knowledge His one signed work is the Madonna del Bordone Bernardo Daddi c – painter the outstanding painter in Florence in the period after the death of Giotto who was possibly his teacher Duccio fl – painter Founder of the Sienese school His most celebrated work is a large altar called the Maestà – in the Siena cathedral Taddeo Gaddi c – painter and architect known for the fresco series Life of the Virgin completed in Giottino fl – painter of the school of Giotto He has been credited with frescoes in Basilica of Santa Croce Florence and in the Lower Church of St Francis in Assisi Giotto di Bondone – painter the first of the great Italian masters His work includes cycles of frescoes in Assisi the Arena Chapel in Padua and the Church of Santa Croce Guido of Siena th century painter One of the innovators in Italian art after the dominance of the Byzantine style Ambrogio Lorenzetti c – painter of the Sienese school Known for the cycle of frescoes – in the Palazzo Pubblico Siena Pietro Lorenzetti c – painter of the Sienese school His Nativity of the Virgin c – is notable for his handling of perspective Simone Martini c – painter important exponent of Gothic art Among his works may be cited the Maestà fresco and Annunciation and two Saints Lippo Memmi c – painter from Siena One of the artists who worked at the Orvieto Cathedral for which he finished the Madonna dei Raccomandati c Orcagna c – painter sculptor and architect He was one of the leading artists of his day

Paolo Veneziano fl – painter and possibly illuminator He was by far the most prolific and influential Venetian painter of the early th century Giunta Pisano fl – painter Three large Crucifixions are ascribed to the same master whose signature can be traced on them Jacopo Torriti fl – painter and mosaicist His work is now known only from two highly prominent signed apse mosaics in the basilicas of St John Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore Renaissance and Mannerism edit Mariotto Albertinelli – painter known for The Visitation and The Annunciation Alessandro Allori – painter His varied output included altarpieces portraits and tapestry designs The Pearl Fishing – is generally considered his masterpiece Andrea del Castagno c – painter in the early Florentine Renaissance Known for a series of monumental frescoes depicting the Last Supper Andrea del Sarto – painter His most striking among other well known works is the series of frescoes on the life of St John the Baptist in the Chiostro dello Scalzo c – Andrea del Verrocchio c – sculptor and painter Among his principal paintings are Baptism of Christ – and several versions of the Madonna and Child Sofonisba Anguissola c – painter mainly of portraits the first woman artist to win international renown Antonello da Messina c – Sicilian painter Major works were altarpieces and portraits Antonio da Correggio – painter known for the frescoes in the domes of San Giovanni Evangelista and the Cathedral of Parma where he worked from to Giuseppe Arcimboldo – painter famous for his allegorical or symbolical compositions in which he arranged objects such as fruits and vegetables into the form of the human face Alesso Baldovinetti – painter He contributed importantly to the fledgling art of landscape painting Jacopo de Barbari c – before painter and printmaker His few surviving paintings about twelve include the first known example of trompe l œil since antiquity Federico Barocci c – leading painter of the central Italian school in the last decades of the th century and an important precursor of the Baroque style Jacopo Bassano c – painter of the Venetian school known for his religious paintings lush landscapes and scenes of everyday life Domenico di Pace Beccafumi – painter sculptor draughtsman printmaker and illuminator He was one of the protagonists of Tuscan Mannerism Gentile Bellini c – painter member of the founding family of the Venetian school of Renaissance painting known for his portraiture and his scenes of Venice Giovanni Bellini c – painter Among his works may be cited St Francis in Ecstasy c and Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan Jacopo Bellini c – c painter who introduced the principles of Florentine early Renaissance art into Venice Ambrogio Bergognone c – painter His most important works are the frescoes in the Certosa di Pavia Boccaccio Boccaccino c – c painter His most impressive work is the fresco cycle of the Life of the Virgin along the nave in the cathedral at Cremona Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – painter He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci whose style he adhered to faithfully Paris Bordone – painter of religious mythological and anecdotal subjects known for his striking sexualized paintings of women Sandro Botticelli c – painter of the Florentine school The Primavera c and The Birth of Venus c rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art Francesco Botticini – painter profoundly influenced by Castagno worked under and was formed by Cosimo Rosselli and Verrocchio Bramantino c – c painter and architect a follower of Bramante from whom he takes his nickname Bronzino – painter He is noted chiefly for his stylized portraits Of his religious works Deposition of Christ – is the most famous Luca Cambiasi – painter and draughtsman He was the outstanding Genoese painter of the th century Vittore Carpaccio c – painter active in Venice known for the cycle depicting the life of Saint Ursula and the Saint George series Cennino Cennini c – c painter known for writing Il libro dell arte source on the methods techniques and attitudes of medieval artists Cigoli – painter draughtsman architect and scenographer He was one of the most influential artists in th century Florence Cima da Conegliano c – c painter of the Venetian school whose style was marked by its use of landscape and by airy luminous colour Niccolò Antonio Colantonio fl – painter based in Naples where he painted religious paintings in a style marked by Flemish influence Francesco del Cossa c – c painter of the Ferrarese school best known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia at Ferrara probably commissioned in Lorenzo Costa – painter of the Ferrarese and Bolognese schools known for his painting the Madonna and Child with the Bentivoglio family Carlo Crivelli c – c painter All his works were of religious subjects done in an elaborate old fashioned style reminiscent of the linearism of Andrea Mantegna Daniele da Volterra c – painter and sculptor noted for his finely drawn highly idealized figures done in the style of Michelangelo Ercole de Roberti c – painter His dynamic figurative compositions are marked by an exceptional intensity of feeling Francesco de Rossi – painter and designer one of the leading Mannerist fresco painters of the Florentine Roman school Niccolò dell Abbate or – painter and decorator He is credited with introducing landscape painting in France Dosso Dossi c – painter and leader of the Ferrarese school in the th century Gaudenzio Ferrari c – painter and sculptor one of the leading representatives of the Lombard school Rosso Fiorentino – painter His masterpiece is generally considered to be the Deposition or Descent from the Cross altarpiece in the Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra Lavinia Fontana – painter She was one of the first women painters in European history to have enjoyed professional success Prospero Fontana – painter father of Lavinia Fontana One of the leading painters in Bologna Vincenzo Foppa c – c painter leading figure in th century Lombard art Fra Angelico c – painter His most well known works are frescoes at the monastery of San Marco Florence and in the chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican Fra Bartolomeo – painter a leading figure of the High Renaissance Noted for his austere religious works Franciabigio – painter known for his portraits and religious paintings Agnolo Gaddi c – painter He was an influential and prolific artist who was the last major Florentine painter stylistically descended from Giotto Fede Galizia – painter one of the earliest still life painters in Italy who was also known for miniature portraits landscapes and religious subjects Gentile da Fabriano c – painter one of the outstanding exponents of the elegant international Gothic style Domenico Ghirlandaio – painter His most famous achievement is his fresco cycle of the life of Mary and St John the Baptist for the choir of Santa Maria Novella – Ridolfo Ghirlandaio – painter He was the son of Domenico Ghirlandaio and was trained in his father s workshop Giorgione c – painter of the Venetian school His The Tempest c a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting Giovanni da Udine – painter and architect A pupil of Raphael and one of his assistants in painting the frescoes of the Vatican Giovanni di Paolo c – painter One of the most attractive and idiosyncratic painters of the Sienese School Stefano di Giovanni c – painter of the Sienese school is noted for the gentle piety of his art Benozzo Gozzoli c – painter He is famous for his numerous frescos such as The Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem – in the Medici Palace Florence Leonardo da Vinci – painter sculptor architect musician engineer and scientist The supreme example of Renaissance genius Author of Mona Lisa c – Filippino Lippi c – painter His most popular painting is the Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard altarpiece Filippo Lippi c – painter His finest fresco cycle is in Prato cathedral and depicts the lives of St Stephen and St John the Baptist Gian Paolo Lomazzo – painter His first work Trattato dell arte della pittura scoltura et architettura is in part a guide to contemporary concepts of decorum Lorenzo di Credi – painter and sculptor Examples of his art are the Madonna with Child and Two Saints and Adoration Lorenzo Monaco c – c painter one of the leading artists in Florence at the beginning of the th century Lorenzo Lotto c – painter known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects Bernardino Luini c – painter known for his mythological and religious frescoes Andrea Mantegna c – painter His most important works were nine tempera pictures of Triumph of Caesar c and his decoration of the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi Masaccio – painter His most famous works are the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel and in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence Masolino da Panicale c – c painter of the Florentine school He collaborated with Masaccio in a cycle of frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence Melozzo da Forlì c – painter of the Umbrian school One of the great fresco artists of the th century Michelangelo – sculptor painter architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art Author of The Creation of Adam c Moretto da Brescia c – painter Together with Romanino and Girolamo Savoldo he was one of the most distinguished painters of Brescia of the th century Giovanni Battista Moroni c – painter He was known for his sober and dignified portraits Palma Giovane – painter The leading Venetian painter and draftsman of the late th and early th centuries Palma Vecchio c – painter of the High Renaissance noted for the craftsmanship of his religious and mythological works Parmigianino – painter one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of Mannerist style Perino del Vaga – painter A pupil and assistant of Raphael Sanzio in Rome he carried out decorations in the Logge of the Vatican from Raphael s designs Francesco Pesellino – painter of the Florentine school who excelled in the execution of small scale paintings Piero della Francesca c – painter and mathematician His most famous cycle The History of the True Cross – depicts scenes from the Golden Legend Piero di Cosimo – painter noted for his eccentric character and his fanciful mythological paintings Pietro Perugino – painter One of his most famous masterpieces is The Delivery of the Keys – in the Sistine Chapel Pinturicchio – painter known for his highly decorative frescoes His most elaborate project was the decoration of the Cathedral of Siena Pisanello c – medalist and painter He is regarded as the foremost exponent of the International Gothic style in Italian painting Polidoro da Caravaggio c – painter One of the most original and innovative artists of the mid th century Antonio del Pollaiolo – painter sculptor goldsmith and engraver was a master of anatomical rendering and excelled in action subjects notably mythologies Pontormo – painter He is thought to have painted Vertumnus and Pomona – which shows qualities characteristic of mannerism Il Pordenone c – painter chiefly known for his frescoes of religious subjects Francesco Primaticcio – painter architect sculptor and leader of the first school of Fontainebleau Francesco Raibolini c – painter goldsmith and medallist His major surviving paintings are altarpieces mostly images of the Virgin and saints Raphael – painter and architect expressed the ideals of the High Renaissance known for his Madonnas Giulio Romano c – painter and architect Well known oils include The Stoning of St Stephen Church of Santo Stefano Genoa and Adoration of the Magi Louvre Cosimo Rosselli – painter Of his many works in Florence the most famous is The Miracle working Chalice in Sant Ambrogio a work that includes many contemporary portraits Andrea Schiavone c – painter and etcher His most characteristic works were fairly small religious or mythological pictures for private patrons Sebastiano del Piombo c – painter of the Venetian School known for his portraits including his portrayal of Pope Clement VII Luca Signorelli c – painter known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices His masterpiece is the fresco cycle in Orvieto Cathedral Il Sodoma – painter a master of the human figure and leading pupil of Leonardo da Vinci Francesco Squarcione c – after painter who founded the Paduan school and is known for being the teacher of Andrea Mantegna and other noteworthy painters Taddeo di Bartolo c – painter He was the leading painter in Siena in the first two decades of the th century and also worked in and for other cities Antonio Tempesta – painter and engraver from Florence who specialised in pastoral scenes Pellegrino Tibaldi – painter sculptor and architect who spread the style of Italian Mannerist painting in Spain during the late th century Tintoretto – painter of the Venetian school One of the most important artists of the late Renaissance His works include St George and the Dragon Titian c – painter of the Venetian school noted for his religious and mythological works such as Bacchus and Ariadne – and his portraits Cosimo Tura c – painter who was the founder and the first significant figure of the th century school of Ferrara Paolo Uccello – painter His three panels depicting The Battle of San Romano combine the decorative late Gothic style with the new heroic style of the early Renaissance Bartolomeo Veneto fl – painter who worked in Northern Italy in an area bounded by Venice and Milan Domenico Veneziano c – painter In Florence he created his most celebrated work the St Lucy Altarpiece c – Paolo Veronese – painter of the Venetian school famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi Alvise Vivarini – painter in the late Gothic style whose father Antonio was the founder of the influential Vivarini family of Venetian artists Bartolomeo Vivarini c – c painter and member of the influential Vivarini family of Venetian artists Federico Zuccari c – painter and architect He was the author of L idea de Pittori Scultori ed Architetti Taddeo Zuccari – painter One of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school Baroque and Rococo edit Francesco Albani – painter known for paintings of mythological and poetic subjects Cristofano Allori – painter He became one of the foremost Florentine artists of the early Baroque period also winning renown as a courtier poet musician and lover Jacopo Amigoni – painter and etcher His oeuvre includes decorative frescoes for churches and palaces history and mythological paintings and a few etchings Marcello Bacciarelli – painter working at the royal court in Warsaw who captured seminal moments in Polish history on canvas Sisto Badalocchio – c painter and engraver His most important work are the frescoes in the cupola and pendentives of St John the Baptist Reggio Emilia Pompeo Batoni – painter In his day he was the most celebrated painter in Rome and one of the most famous in Europe Bernardo Bellotto – painter of topographical views known as vedute "view paintings" Guido Cagnacci – painter Particularly noteworthy are his altarpieces of the Virgin and Child with Three Carmelite Saints c and Christ with Saints Joseph and Eligius Canaletto – painter and etcher noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities esp Venice which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade Battistello Caracciolo – painter Caravaggesque painter and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism Caravaggio – painter of the baroque whose influential works such as The Entombment of Christ – are marked by intense realism and revolutionary use of light Annibale Carracci – painter Well known among his numerous works are The Beaneater – The Choice of Hercules and Domine quo vadis c Ludovico Carracci – painter draughtsman and etcher born in Bologna Rosalba Carriera – portrait painter and miniaturist Rococo style nown for her work in pastels Giuseppe Crespi – painter of the Bolognese school known for the imposing paintings of the Seven Sacraments Carlo Dolci – Florentine painter known for his paintings of the heads and half figures of Jesus and the Mater Dolorosa Domenichino – painter of the baroque eclectic school who is noted for his religious and mythological works including several frescoes of Saint Cecilia Domenico Fetti c – painter whose best known works are small representations of biblical parables Giovanni Battista Gaulli – painter He was a celebrated artist of the Roman High Baroque Worship of the Holy Name of Jesus – is his most noted work Artemisia Gentileschi – painter Among her works may be cited Susanna and the Elders and Judith Slaying Holofernes – Orazio Gentileschi – painter The Annunciation painted in Genoa and now in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin is considered by several authorities his masterpiece Luca Giordano – painter the most important Italian decorative artist of the second half of the th century Francesco Guardi – painter a follower of Canaletto His many charming landscapes are in the galleries of London Paris Venice and Boston Guercino – painter Extremely skillful prolific and quick to finish his work he was known for his frescoes altarpieces oils and drawings Giovanni Lanfranco – painter one of the foremost artists of the High Baroque His masterpiece is the Assumption of the Virgin in the dome of Sant Andrea della Valle – Pietro Longhi – painter known for his small pictures depicting the life of upper middle class Venetians of his day Alessandro Magnasco – painter known for his scenes of disembodied flamelike figures in stormy landscapes or cavernousinteriors Bartolomeo Manfredi – painter active mainly in Rome where he was one of the most important of Caravaggio s followers Carlo Maratta – painter and engraver of the Roman school one of the last great masters of Baroque classicism Pietro Novelli – painter Probably the most distinguished Sicilian painter of the th century Giovanni Paolo Panini – the foremost painter of Roman topography in the th century Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – painter illustrator and designer His most popular work is the celebrated Fortune Teller Andrea Pozzo – painter a leading exponent of the baroque style His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant Ignazio in Rome Mattia Preti – painter called Il Calabrese for his birthplace His most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John s Valletta Guido Reni – painter noted for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects Sebastiano Ricci – painter He is remembered for his decorative paintings which mark the transition between the late Baroque and the development of the Rococo style Salvator Rosa – painter etcher and poet known for his spirited battle pieces painted in the style of Falcone for his marines and especially for his landscapes Francesco Solimena – painter The leading artist of the Neapolitan Baroque during the first half of the th century Massimo Stanzione c – c painter His style has a distinctive refinement and grace that has earned him the nickname "the Neapolitan Guido Reni " Bernardo Strozzi c – painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – painter His frescoes in the Palazzo Labia and the doge s palace won him international fame Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – painter and printmaker His most noted early works are the chinoiserie decorations of the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza The s edit Giuseppe Abbati – painter of the macchiaioli group Andrea Appiani – fresco painter active in Milan and a court painter of Napoleon Giovanni Boldini – painter one of the most renowned society portraitists of his day He worked mainly in Paris where he settled in Constantino Brumidi – Italian American painter whose best known works are his frescoes in the Capitol building Washington D C Vincenzo Camuccini – painter His many drawings reveal a fluid technique and lively artistic imagination Antonio Ciseri – painter of religious subjects Giuseppe De Nittis – painter mainly of landscapes and scenes of city life Giacomo Di Chirico – painter One of the most elite Neapolitan artists of the th century Giovanni Fattori – painter leading figure of the macchiaioli school Francesco Hayez – painter the leading artist of Romanticism in mid th century Milan His masterpiece is The Kiss Cesare Maccari – painter and sculptor most famous for his fresco at Palazzo Madama portraying Cicero revealing Catilina s plot Giovanni Segantini – painter known for his Alpine landscapes and allegorical pictures which blended Symbolist content with the technique of Neo Impressionism The s edit Pietro Annigoni – painter and occasional sculptor the only artist of his time to become internationally famous as a society and state portraitist Giacomo Balla – painter sculptor stage designer decorative artist and actor He was one of the originators of Futurism Umberto Boccioni – painter sculptor and theorist His painting The City Rises is a dynamic composition of swirling human figures in a fragmented crowd scene Alberto Burri – painter and sculptor He was one of the first artists to exploit the evocative force of waste materials looking forward to Trash art in America and Arte Povera in Italy Aldo Carpi – rector of the Brera Academy and author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen Gusen


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concentration camp Carlo Carrà – painter known for his still lifes in the style of Metaphysical painting Francesco Clemente born painter and draftsman whose dramatic figural imagery was a major component in the revitalization of Italian art beginning in the s Enzo Cucchi born painter draughtsman and sculptor He was a key member of the Italian Transavantgarde movement Giorgio de Chirico – painter He founded the scuola metafisica art movement Guillaume Apollinaire called him the most astonishing painter of his time " Lazzaro Donati – painter Born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts He began to paint in and in held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence Lucio Fontana – painter sculptor and theorist founder of Spatialism noted for gashed monochrome paintings Renato Guttuso – painter He was a forceful personality and Italy s leading exponent of Social realism in the th century Marzia Luchetti – designer painter artisan Piero Manzoni – artist He is regarded as one of the forerunners of Arte Povera and Conceptual art Amedeo Modigliani – painter and sculptor whose portraits and nudes characterized by asymmetrical compositions are among the most important portraits of the th century Giorgio Morandi – painter and etcher He is widely acknowledged as a major Italian painter of the th century Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo – painter His most famous work is The Fourth Estate a symbol of the th Luigi Russolo – painter One of the five signers of the basic "Manifesto of Futurist Painting" before switching his attention to music Emilio Scanavino – painter and sculptor One of the most important protagonists of the Spatialist movement in Italy Gino Severini – painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism Mario Sironi – painter sculptor illustrator and designer He was the leading artist of the Novecento Italiano group in the s developing a muscular monumental figurative style Printers edit See also Category Italian printers Panfilo Castaldi c – c physician and "master of the art of printing" to whom local tradition attributes the invention of moveable type Fortunato Felice – printer publisher and scientist Settled in Yverdon where he published a version of the Encyclopédie – Francesco Franceschi c – c printer Known for the high quality of his engravings which were done using metal plates rather than wooden Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari c – bookseller printer and editor at Venice He was one of the first major publishers of literature in the vernacular Italian language Johannes Philippus de Lignamine c – printer and publisher known for his publication of Herbarium Apuleii Platonici Aldus Manutius – printer noted for his fine editions of the classics Inventor of the italic type and also the first to use the semicolon Aldus Manutius the Younger – printer last member of the Italian family of Manutius to be active in the famous Aldine Press Giovanni Battista Pasquali – printer a leading printer in th century Venice Pietro Perna – printer the leading printer of late Renaissance Basel Ottaviano Petrucci – printer Inventor of movable metal type for printing mensural and polyphonic music Lawrence Torrentinus – typographer and printer for Cosimo I de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany Printmakers edit See also Category Italian printmakers Domenico Campagnola c – painter and printmaker and one of the first professional draftsmen Giulio Campagnola c – c painter and engraver who anticipated by over two centuries the development of stipple engraving Agostino Carracci – painter and printmaker He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci Stefano della Bella – printmaker noted for his engravings of military events in the manner of Jacques Callot Marcantonio Raimondi c – c engraver known for being the first important printmaker He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the reproductive print Mario Labacco active engraver Francesco Rosselli – before miniature painter and an important engraver of maps and old master prints Ugo da Carpi c – between and painter and printmaker the first Italian practitioner of the art of the chiaroscuro woodcut Saints edit See also Category Italian saints Agatha of Sicily fl rd century AD legendary Christian saint martyred under Roman Emperor Decius She is invoked against outbreaks of fire and is the patron saint of bell makers Agnes of Rome c – c legendary Christian martyr the patron saint of girls Robert Bellarmine – theologian cardinal Doctor of the Church and a principal influence in the Counter Reformation Bernardine of Siena – preacher He was a Franciscan of the Observant congregation and one of the most effective and most widely known preachers of his day Charles Borromeo – cardinal and archbishop He was one of the leaders of the Counter Reformation John Bosco – Catholic priest pioneer in educating the poor and founder of the Salesian Order Catherine of Siena – Dominican tertiary mystic and patron saint of Italy who played a major role in returning the papacy from Avignon to Rome Saint Cecilia nd century AD patron saint of musicians and Church music Venerated in both East and West she is one of the eight women commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass Francis of Paola – mendicant friar The founder of the Minims a religious order in the Catholic Church Hippolytus of Rome – Christian martyr who was also the first antipope – Januarius – c Bishop and martyr sometimes called Gennaro long popular because of the liquefaction of his blood on his feast day Lawrence of Brindisi – Capuchin friar He was one of the leading polemicists of the Counter Reformation in Germany Saint Longinus st century AD Roman soldier who pierced Jesus s side with a spear as he hung on the cross Saint Lucy – Christian martyr She is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse Sicily Philip Neri – priest The founder of the Congregation of the Oratory a congregation of secular priests and clerics Pio of Pietrelcina – Capuchin priest He is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church s modern stigmatists Rita of Cascia – Augustinian nun Saint Rosalia – hermitess greatly venerated at Palermo and in the whole of Sicily of which she in patroness Roger of Cannae – Bishop Saint Valentine rd century AD according to tradition he is the patron saint of courtship travelers and young people Vitus c – c Christian saint He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Catholic Church Scientists edit Main article List of Italian scientists Maria Gaetana Agnesi – linguist mathematician and philosopher considered to be the first woman in the Western world to have achieved a reputation in mathematics Ulisse Aldrovandi – naturalist noted for his systematic and accurate observations of animals plants and minerals Giovanni Battista Amici – astronomer and microscopist The inventor of the catadioptric microscope presented at the Arts and Industry Exhibition in Milan in Giovanni Arduino – father of Italian geology who established bases for stratigraphic chronology by classifying the four main layers of the Earth s crust Silvano Arieti – psychiatrist and psychoanalyst long recognized as a leading authority on schizophrenia Gaspare Aselli c – physician who contributed to the knowledge of the circulation of body fluids by discovering the lacteal vessels Roberto Assagioli – psychiatrist and psychologist The founder of the healing system known as psychosynthesis Gjuro Baglivi – physician and scientist He published the first clinical description of pulmonary edema and made classic observations on the histology and physiology of muscle Franco Basaglia – psychiatrist He was the promoter of an important reform in the Italian mental health system the "legge " law number year Agostino Bassi – entomologist The first person to succeed in the experimental transmission of a contagious disease Laura Bassi – scientist who was the first woman to become a physics professor at a European university Jacopo Berengario da Carpi c – c physician and anatomist who was the first to describe the heart valves Giulio Bizzozero – anatomist He is known as the original discoverer of Helicobacter pylori Enrico Bombieri born mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in for his work in number theory Claudio Bordignon born biologist performed the first procedure of gene therapy using stem cells as gene vectors Giovanni Alfonso Borelli – physiologist and physicist who was the first to explain muscular movement and other body functions according to the laws of statics and dynamics Giacomo Bresadola – clergyman and a prolific and influential mycologist Francesco Brioschi – mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of algebraic equations and to the applications of mathematics to hydraulics Giuseppe Brotzu – physician famous for having discovered the cephalosporin Tito Livio Burattini – mathematician in his book Misura Universale published in first suggested the name meter as the name for a unit of length Nicola Cabibbo – physicist who reconciled these strange particle decays with the universality of weak interactions Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani – anatomist and physiologist He is noted for his experimental studies on the function of the spinal cord Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti – physicist invented a tube filled with iron filings called a "coherer" Tommaso Campailla – physician philosopher and poet inventor of "vapour stovens" that he used to fight syphilis rheumatism Giuseppe Campani – optician and astronomer who invented a lens grinding lathe Stanislao Cannizzaro – chemist in put an end to confusion over values to be attributed to atomic weights using Avogadro s hypothesis Federico Capasso born physicist one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser QCL in Mario Capecchi born molecular geneticist famous for having contribution to development of "knockout mice" Gerolamo Cardano – mathematician and physician initiated the general theory of cubic and quartic equations He emphasized the need for both negative and complex numbers Antonio Cardarelli – physician remembered for describing Cardarelli s sign Antonio Carini – physician and bacteriologist who discovered Pneumocystis carinii which is responsible for recurrent pneumonia in patients with AIDS Francesco Carlini – astronomer Worked in the field of celestial mechanics improved the theory of the motion of the Moon Giovanni Caselli – physicist inventor of the pantelegraph Giovanni Domenico Cassini – mathematician astronomer engineer and astrologer who was the first to observe four of Saturn s moons Bonaventura Cavalieri – mathematician He invented the method of indivisibles that foreshadowed integral calculus Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza born population geneticist currently teaching since as emeritus professor at Stanford University One of the most important geneticists of the th century Tiberius Cavallo – physicist and natural philosopher who wrote on the early experiments with electricity He was known contemporaneously as the inventor of Cavallo s multiplier Ugo Cerletti – neurologist co inventor with Lucio Bini of the method of electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatry Vincenzo Cerulli – astronomer The author of the idea that the canali are just a special kind of optical illusion Andrea Cesalpino – physician philosopher and botanist produced the first scientific classification of plants and animals by genera and species Ernesto Cesàro – mathematician In he developed methods of finding the sum of divergent series Cesàro made important contributions to intrinsic geometry Giacinto Cestoni – naturalist studied fleas and algae and showed that scabies is provoked by Sarcoptes scabiei Vincenzo Chiarugi – physician who introduced humanitarian reforms to the psychiatric hospital care of people with mental disorders Realdo Colombo c – one of the first anatomists in the Western world to describe pulmonary circulation Orso Mario Corbino – physicist and politician discovered modulation calorimetry and Corbino effect a variant of the Hall effect Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti – anatomist known for his discoveries on the anatomical structure of the ear Domenico Cotugno – physician He discovered albuminuria about a half century before Richard Bright and was also one of the first scientists to identify urea in human urine Alessandro Cruto – inventor who improved on Thomas Alva Edison incandescent light bulb with carbon filament Bruno de Finetti – probabilist statistician and actuary noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability Annibale de Gasparis – astronomer his first asteroid discovery was Hygiea in Between and he discovered eight more asteroids Ennio de Giorgi – mathematician He brilliantly resolved the th Hilbert problem Today this contribution is known as the De Giorgi Nash Theorem Mondino de Liuzzi c – physician and anatomist whose Anathomia corporis humani MS first printed in was the first modern work on anatomy Francesco de Vico – astronomer He discovered a number of comets including periodic comets P de Vico Swift NEAT and P de Vico Giambattista della Porta c – scholar and polymath known for his work Magia Naturalis which dealt with alchemy magic and natural philosophy Ulisse Dini – mathematician and politician whose most important work was on the theory of functions of real variables Eustachio Divini – physician and astronomer maker of clocks and lenses innovative compound microscope Giovanni Battista Donati – astronomer He becomes one of the first to systematically adapt the new science of spectroscopy to astronomy Giovanni Dondi dell Orologio – doctor and clock maker at Padua son of Jacopo Dondi builder of the Astrarium Jacopo Dondi dell Orologio – doctor and clock maker at Padua father of Giovanni Angelo Dubini – physician who identified Ancylostoma duodenale Girolamo Segato – egyptologist and anatomist best known for his unique work in the petrifaction of human cadavers Renato Dulbecco born virologist known for his brilliant work with two viruses that can transform animal cells into a cancer like state in the test tube Federigo Enriques – mathematician known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry Vittorio Erspamer – pharmacologist and chemist famous for having discovered the serotonin and octopamine Bartolomeo Eustachi or – anatomist He described many structures in the human body including the Eustachian tube of the ear Francesco Faà di Bruno – mathematician known for the Faà di Bruno formula Hieronymus Fabricius – anatomist and surgeon called the founder of modern embryology Gabriele Falloppio – anatomist and physician His important discoveries include the fallopian tubes leading from uterus to ovaries Enrico Fermi – physicist constructed the world s first nuclear reactor initiated the atomic age father of atom bomb Lodovico Ferrari – mathematician famous for having discovered the solution of the general quartic equation Galileo Ferraris – physicist and electrical engineer noted for the discovery of the rotating magnetic field basic working principle of the induction motor Amarro Fiamberti – psychiatrist who first performed a transorbital lobotomy by accessing the frontal lobe of the brain through the orbits in Leonardo Fibonacci c – c mathematician eponym of the Fibonacci number sequence He is considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages Quirico Filopanti – mathematician and politician In his book Miranda he was the first to propose universal time and worldwide standard time zones years before Sandford Fleming Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia – mathematician who originated the science of ballistics Carlo Forlanini – physician inventor of artificial pneumothorax for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich – mathematician astronomer and natural philosopher known as one of the forerunners of Einstein s theory of relativity He founded theoretical chemistry by giving the first description for an atom Girolamo Fracastoro – physician and scholar the first to state the germ theory of infection and is regarded as the founder of scientific epidemiology Guido Fubini – mathematician eponym of Fubini s theorem in measure theory Galileo Galilei – physicist and astronomer The founder of modern science who accurately described heliocentric solar system Luigi Galvani – physician and physicist noted for his discovery of animal electricity Agostino Gemelli – physician psychologist and priest founder of a university and eponym of the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic Luca Ghini – physician and botanist best known as the creator of the first recorded herbarium and founder of the world s first botanical garden Riccardo Giacconi born astrophysicist called the father of X ray astronomy Clelia Giacobini – microbiologist a pioneer of microbiology applied to conservation restoration Corrado Gini – statistician demographer and sociologist developer of Gini coefficient Camillo Golgi – histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi apparatus Luigi Guido Grandi – philosopher mathematician and engineer known for studying the rose curve a curve which has the shape of a petalled flower and for Grandi s series Giovanni Battista Grassi – zoologist who discovered that mosquitoes were responsible for transmitting malaria between humans Francesco Maria Grimaldi – physicist and mathematician noted for his discoveries in the field of optics he was the first to describe the diffraction of light Nicola Guarino born scientist co inventor with Chris Welty of the OntoClean the first methodology for formal ontological analysis Guido da Vigevano c – c physician and inventor who became one of the first writers to include illustrations in a work on anatomy Giovanni Battista Hodierna – astronomer He was one of the first to create a catalog of celestial objects with a telescope Arturo Issel – geologist palaeontologist malacologist and archaeologist He is noted for first defining the Tyrrhenian Stage Joseph Louis Lagrange – Italian French who made major contributions to mathematics and physics Giovanni Maria Lancisi – clinician and anatomist who is considered the first modern hygienist Rita Levi Montalcini born neurologist famous for having discovered the nerve growth factor NGF Aloysius Lilius c – astronomer and physician The principal author of the Gregorian Calendar Salvador Luria – microbiologist He shared a Nobel Prize for investigating the mechanism of viral infection in living cells Giovanni Antonio Magini – astronomer astrologer cartographer and mathematician known for his reduced size edition of Ptolemy s Geographiae Ettore Majorana – theoretical physicist He is noted for the eponymous Majorana equation Marcello Malpighi – physician and biologist He is regarded as the founder of microscopic anatomy and may be regarded as the first histologist Massimo Marchiori – computer scientist who made major contributions to the development of the World Wide Web He was also the creator of HyperSearch Guglielmo Marconi – physicist credited as the inventor of radio often called the father of wireless communication and technology Macedonio Melloni – physicist demonstrated that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light Giuseppe Mercalli – volcanologist and seismologist inventor of the Mercalli intensity scale Franco Modigliani – economist and educator who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in for his work on household savings and the dynamics of financial markets Geminiano Montanari – astronomer Today it is better Soedarsono Hadisapoetro Taufik Akbar Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés Fabio Ulloa José Valladares Melvin Valladares Noel Valladares Érick Vallecillo Orlin Vallecillo Steve Van Buren Domingo Vásquez Edy Vasquez Eddy Vega Wilmer Velásquez Diego Vigil Cocaña Franklin Vinosis Webster George Welcome Florencio Xatruch Maria Montessori – physician and educator The innovative educational method that bears her name is now spread in schools in at least countries worldwide Giovanni Battista Morgagni – anatomist called the founder of pathologic anatomy Angelo Mosso – physiologist who created the first crude neuroimaging technique Giulio Natta – chemist famous for having discovered isotactic polypropylene and polymers Adelchi Negri – pathologist and microbiologist who identified what later became known as Negri bodies in the brains of animals and humans infected with the rabies virus Leopoldo Nobili – physicist designed the first precision instrument for measuring electric current Giuseppe Occhialini – physicist contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi meson decay in with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell Barnaba Oriani – astronomer Great scholar of orbital theories Filippo Pacini – anatomist who isolated the Vibrio cholerae the bacteria that causes cholera Antonio Pacinotti – physicist inventor of the dynamo and electric motor Luca Pacioli – mathematician and founder of accounting He popularized the system of double bookkeeping for keeping financial records and is often known as the father of modern accounting Ferdinando Palasciano – physician and politician considered one of the forerunners of the foundation of the Red Cross Luigi Palmieri – physicist and meteorologist inventor of the mercury seismometer Pier Paolo Pandolfi born geneticist discovered the genes underlying acute promyelocytic leukaemia APL Vilfredo Pareto – engineer sociologist economist and philosopher

eponym of Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index and Pareto principle Giorgio Parisi born theoretical physicist called the father of the modern field of chaos theory Emanuele Paternò – chemist discoverer of the Paternò–Büchi reaction Giuseppe Peano – mathematician and a founder of symbolic logic whose interests centred on the foundations of mathematics and on the development of a formal logical language Gaetano Perusini – physician remembered for his contribution to the description of Alzheimer s Giuseppe Piazzi – mathematician and astronomer who discovered January and named the first asteroid or "minor planet" Ceres Raffaele Piria – chemist The first to successfully synthesize salicylic acid the active ingredient in aspirin Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana – astronomer and mathematician The founder of the Observatory of Turin Edoardo Amaldi – cosmic ray physicist one of the founding fathers of European space research led the founding of the CERN the ESRO and later the European Space Agency ESA Bernardino Ramazzini – physician considered a founder of occupational medicine Francesco Redi – physician who demonstrated that the presence of maggots in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from eggs laid on the meat by flies Jacopo Riccati – mathematician known in connection with his problem called Riccati s equation published in the Acla eruditorum Matteo Ricci – missionary to China mathematician linguist and published the first Chinese edition of Euclid s Elements Gregorio Ricci Curbastro – mathematician inventor of tensor analysis collaborator with Tullio Levi Civita Giovanni Battista Riccioli – astronomer devised the system for the nomenclature of lunar features that is now the international standard Augusto Righi – physicist who played an important role in the development of electromagnetism Scipione Riva Rocci – internist and pediatrician The inventor of the first mercury sphygmomanometer Rogerius before – c surgeon who wrote a work on medicine entitled Practica Chirurgiae "The Practice of Surgery" around Gian Domenico Romagnosi – philosopher economist and jurist famous for having discovered the same link between electricity and magnetism Bruno Rossi – experimental physicist An authority on cosmic rays Carlo Rubbia born physicist who in shared with Simon van der Meer the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of the massive short lived subatomic W particle and Z particle Paolo Ruffini – mathematician and physician who made studies of equations that anticipated the algebraic theory of groups Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri – philosopher and mathematician who did early work on non Euclidean geometry although he didn t see it as such Sanctorius – physiologist and physician He laid the foundation for the study of metabolism Antonio Scarpa – anatomist famous for the anatomical eponyms Scarpa triangle and Scarpa ganglion of the ear Giovanni Schiaparelli – astronomer and science historian who first observed lines on the surface of Mars which he described as canals Angelo Secchi – astronomer He is known especially for his work in spectroscopy and was a pioneer in classifying stars by their spectra Emilio Segrè – physicist known for his discovery of the antiproton Francesco Selmi – chemist One of the founders of colloid chemistry Enrico Sertoli – physiologist and histologist The discoverer of the cells of the seminiferous tubules of the testis that bear his name Ascanio Sobrero – chemist famous for having discovered the synthesis of nitroglycerine Lazzaro Spallanzani – biologist and physiologist called the father of artificial insemination done at Pavia in Francesco Stelluti – polymath who worked in the fields of mathematics microscopy literature and astronomy in he published the first accounts of microscopic observation Gasparo Tagliacozzi – plastic surgeon He is considered a pioneer in the field called the father of plastic surgery Roberto Assagioli – psychiatrist and psychologist The founder of the healing system known as psychosynthesis Gjuro Baglivi – physician and scientist He published the first clinical description of pulmonary edema and made classic observations on the histology and physiology of muscle Franco Basaglia – psychiatrist He was the promoter of an important reform in the Italian mental health system the "legge " law number year Agostino Bassi – entomologist The first person to succeed in the experimental transmission of a contagious disease Vincenzo Tiberio – physician and researcher He was one of many scientist to notice the antibacterial power of some types of mold before Alexander Fleming s discovery of penicillin Laura Bassi – scientist who was the first woman to become a physics professor at a European university Giuseppe Toaldo – physicist gave special attention to the study of atmospheric electricity and to the means of protecting buildings against lightning Evangelista Torricelli – physicist and mathematician inventor of the barometer Trotula th– th centuries physician who wrote several influential works on women s medicine whose texts on gynecology and obstetrics were widely used for several hundred years in Europe Pellegrino Turri – has built the first typewriter proven to have worked in He also invented carbon paper Carlo Urbani – physician The first person to discover severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS in Antonio Vallisneri – physician and naturalist who made numerous experiments in entomology and human organology and combated the doctrine of spontaneous generation Antonio Maria Valsalva – professor of anatomy at Bologna He described several anatomical features of the ear in his book De aure humana tractatus Costanzo Varolio – is remembered for his studies on the anatomy of the brain and his description of the pons that bears his name Gabriele Veneziano born theoretical physicist and a founder of string theory Giovanni Battista Venturi – physicist He was the discoverer and eponym of Venturi effect Emilio Veratti – anatomist who described the sarcoplasmic reticulum Alessandro Volta – electricity pioneer eponym of the volt inventor of the electric battery Vito Volterra – mathematician and physicist who strongly influenced the modern development of calculus Giuseppe Zamboni – physicist who invented the Zamboni pile a model of dry battery Francesco Zantedeschi – physicist who published papers on the production of electric currents in closed circuits by the approach and withdrawal of a magnet Niccolò Zucchi – astronomer and physicist May have been the first to observe belts on the planet Jupiter with a telescope on May also claimed to have explored the idea of a reflecting telescope in predating Galileo Galilei and Giovanni Francesco Sagredo s discussions of the same idea a few years later Giovanni Battista Zupi c – astronomer and mathematician The first person to discover that the planet Mercury had orbital phases Nazareno Strampelli – geneticist and agronomist whose innovative scientific work in wheat breeding years earlier than Borlaug laid the foundations for the Green Revolution Sculptors edit See also Category Italian sculptors Agostino di Duccio – c sculptor whose work is characterized by its linear decorativeness Giovanni Antonio Amadeo c – sculptor architect and engineer he took part in the sculpture of the great octagonal dome of Milan Cathedral Bartolomeo Ammanati – sculptor and architect his works the two members of the del Monte family and the Fountains of Juno and Neptune are generally considered his masterpieces Benedetto Antelami c – c sculptor and architect He is credited with the sculptural decorations of Fidenza Cathedral and Ferrara Cathedral Andrea di Alessandro th century sculptor responsible for the bronze candelabra in the Santa Maria della Salute church Arnolfo di Cambio c – sculptor and architect his sculptures have a strong sense of volume that shows the influence on him of antique Roman models Bartolommeo Bandinelli – sculptor and painter his most famous and conspicuous sculpture is Hercules and Cacus – a pendant to Michelangelo s David Lorenzo Bartolini – sculptor his most imposing creation is the Nicola Demidoff monument in Florence Benedetto da Maiano – sculptor and architect whose work is characterized by its decorative elegance and realistic detail Gian Lorenzo Bernini – sculptor and architect during the Baroque period works include Apollo and Daphne – and Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Umberto Boccioni – painter and sculptor The leading theorist of futurist art his sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is generally considered his masterpiece Antonio Canova – sculptor Leading exponent of the neoclassical school works include Psyche Revived by Cupid s Kiss – – Benvenuto Cellini – goldsmith medallist sculptor and writer He was one of the foremost Italian Mannerist artists of the th century Vincenzo Danti – sculptor architect and writer born in Perugia and active mainly in Florence Andrea della Robbia – sculptor known for Crucifixion and the Assumption of the Virgin at La Verna Desiderio da Settignano c – sculptor his delicate sensitive original technique was best expressed in portrait busts of women and children Donatello c – sculptor pioneer of the Renaissance style of natural lifelike figures such as the bronze statue David c Giovanni Battista Foggini – sculptor and architect the foremost Florentine sculptor of the late Baroque period Domenico Gagini – sculptor Although he worked at times in Florence and Rome he is known for his activity in northern Italy Silvio Gazzaniga born sculptor His major works includes FIFA World Cup Trophy UEFA Europa League trophy and UEFA Supercup trophy Vincenzo Gemito – Italian sculptor draughtsmen Lorenzo Ghiberti – sculptor goldsmith and designer active in Florence Giambologna – sculptor in the mannerist style works include Fountain of Neptune – and The Rape of the Sabine Women – Jacopo della Quercia c – sculptor he is especially noted for his imposing allegorical figures for the Gaia Fountain in Siena Francesco Laurana c – sculptor known for his portrait busts of women characterized by serene detached dignity and aristocratic elegance Leone Leoni – sculptor and medalist his most important works were kneeling bronze figures of Charles V and Philip II with their families for the sanctuary in the Escorial Tullio Lombardo – sculptor he is noted for the mausoleum of Doge Pietro Mocenigo in Santi Giovanni e Paolo and for other tombs including that of Dante at Ravenna Stefano Maderno c – sculptor He was one of the leading sculptors in Rome during the papacy of Paul V – Giacomo Manzù – sculptor known for his relief sculptures which give contemporary dimensions to Christian themes Marino Marini – sculptor known for his many vigorous sculptures of horses and horsemen e g Horse and Rider – Arturo Martini – sculptor who was active between the World Wars He is known for figurative sculptures executed in a wide variety of styles and materials Michelangelo – sculptor and painter one of the most famous artists in history creations include Pietà and David Mino da Fiesole c – sculptor he is noted for his portrait busts Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli c – sculptor of the Michelangelesque school and seems to have acted as assistant to Michelangelo Nanni di Banco c – sculptor the classically influenced Four Crowned Martyrs c is considered his masterpiece Niccolò dell Arca c – sculptor The Ragusa Bari and Apulia variants of his name suggest that he might have come from southern Italy Andrea Pisano – sculptor his most important work the first bronze doors of the Baptistery in Florence was begun in Giovanni Pisano c – c sculptor painter and architect his most famous work is the Pulpit of St Andrew Nicola Pisano – sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture Arnaldo Pomodoro born sculptor one of the most famous contemporary artists Luca della Robbia – sculptor the most famous member of a family of artists Two of his famous works are The Nativity c and Madonna and Child c Bernardo Rossellino – sculptor and architect He was among the most distinguished Florentine marble sculptors in the second half of the th century Giuseppe Sanmartino – sculptor his masterpiece in this genre is the four Virtues of Charles of Bourbon – Andrea Sansovino c – sculptor his statues and reliefs for church decoration such as the Virgin and Child with St Anne at San Agostino were greatly admired Pietro Torrigiano – sculptor his gilt bronze masterpiece the tomb of King Henry VII and his queen is preserved in Westminster Abbey Vecchietta – painter sculptor goldsmith architect and military engineer One of the most influential artists of the early Renaissance Alessandro Vittoria – sculptor He was celebrated for his portrait busts and decorative work much of which was created for the restoration of the Doge s Palace Sport people edit See also Category Italian sportspeople Tony Cairoli born an eight time Grand Prix motocross world champion His record of races wins and Grand Prix wins make him the second most successful in motocross history Giacomo Agostini born motorcycle racer Alberto Ascari – automobile racing driver who was world champion driver in and Roberto Baggio born footballer Italy s all time FIFA World Cup top scorer former winner of Ballon d Or and FIFA World Player of the Year Mario Balotelli born footballer European Golden Boy and Euro co leading scorer Franco Baresi born footballer Andrea Bargnani born basketball player with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association Gino Bartali – cyclist won the Giro d Italia twice in and and the Tour de France in Jacques Balmat – mountaineer called Le Mont Blanc often regarded as the “Father of Alpinism” Together with Michel Gabriel Paccard he completed the first ever ascent of Mont Blanc Stefania Belmondo born time Olympic medalist in cross country skiing Jury Chechi born gymnast nicknamed “The Lord of the Rings” The first athlete in the sport to win five consecutive world championships gold medals in the same event Lorenzo Bernardi born volleyball player Elected by the FIVB "Volleyball Player of the Century" in Mario Andretti born a four time IndyCar and F world champion one of only two drivers to win races in F IndyCar World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR His record includes career wins on major circuits Paolo Bettini born road racing cyclist Gianluigi Buffon born footballer who plays as a goalkeeper One of the most dominant and successful goalkeepers in history according to whom Fabio Cannavaro born footballer who plays as a centre back He won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in Primo Carnera – heavyweight boxing champion of the world Pierluigi Collina born football referee Deborah Compagnoni born alpine skier who won three gold medals at the and Winter Olympics Fausto Coppi – cyclist His successes earned him the title Il Campionissimo or champion of champions Umberto De Morpurgo – tennis player highest world ranking Olympic bronze singles Alessandro Del Piero born footballer Frankie Dettori born Giuseppe Farina – racing driver The first Formula One World Champion Enzo Ferrari – race car driver and entrepreneur the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team Christof Innerhofer born alpine skier won the men s Super G at the world Alpine championships in Garmisch Partenkirchen Germany Paolo Maldini born footballer who played as a centre back One of the great defenders of all time Giuseppe Meazza – footballer Dino Meneghin born basketball player Pietro Mennea born sprinter and politician who was the Moscow Olympic meter champion and also held the m world record for years Reinhold Messner born mountaineer and explorer Eugenio Monti – bobsledder the most successful athlete in the history of bobsled with World championship gold medals and Olympic medals and the first ever to receive the Pierre de Coubertin medal Carlton Myers born basketball player Alessandro Nesta born footballer who plays as a defender Tazio Nuvolari – motorcycle and racecar driver Armin Zöggeler born luger nicknamed Il Cannibale The first Olympian ever summer or winter to win six consecutive medals in the same individual event also holds a record of World Cup titles and victories Marco Pantani – cyclist won both the Tour de France cycling s premier road race and the Giro d Italia in Umberto Pelizzari born free diver Gianmarco Pozzecco born basketball player an all around offensive talent He won for seven years the ranking for the top assist men in the Italian League Nino Bibbia – one of skeleton s great Italy s first Winter Olympic gold medalist In his illustrious career he earned golds silvers and bronzes The World s most prestigious race is named after him Costantino Rocca born the most successful male golfer that Italy has produced Antonio Rossi born sprint canoer who has competed since the early s Paolo Rossi born footballer He is listed among Pelé s all time greatest footballers Valentino Rossi born motorcycle racer He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time according to whom The record books statistics Sara Simeoni born high jumper who won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women s high jump Alberto Tomba born alpine skier known as Tomba la Bomba Earned Olympic gold medals and World Cup trophies winning events Francesco Totti born footballer Trebisonda Valla – athlete The first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal Christian Vieri born footballer Regarded as one of the finest strikers in Europe Alex Zanardi born racing driver He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late s Dino Zoff born football goalkeeper Gianfranco Zola born footballer He was voted Chelsea s best player in the centenary celebrations of Valentina Vezzali born female fencer One of only four athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event Maurice Garin – first giant of Italian cycling known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in Klaus Dibiasi born diver the only Olympic diver to have won three successive gold medals and the only one to win medals at four Summer Olympics Edoardo Mangiarotti – widely known as the most successful fencer of all time having won more Olympic titles and World championships than any other fencer in history Josefa Idem Guerrini born one of sprint canoeing s legends winner of international medals among Olympic Games World and European Championships Her eight Olympic appearances is a female record Nedo Nadi – fencer The only one to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games Gustavo Thoeni born skier His record of four overall World Cup titles in five years are exceeded only by Marc Girardelli s five Writers and philosophers edit See also List of Italian journalists List of Italian philosophers and List of Italian writers Ancient and Late Antique edit Main article Latin literature See also Category Latin language writers and Category Philosophers of Roman Italy Lucius Accius BC – c BC Roman poet Author of more than tragedies with subjects taken from Greek mythology Livius Andronicus c BC – c BC founder of Roman epic poetry and drama Arator – Christian poet his best known work De Actibus Apostolorum is a verse history of the Apostles Boethius – Roman scholar Christian philosopher and statesman author of the celebrated De consolatione philosophiae Cassiodorus – c historian statesman and monk who helped to save the culture of Rome at a time of impending barbarism Catullus c BC – c BC Roman poet whose expressions of love and hatred are generally considered the finest lyric poetry of ancient Rome Ennius BC– BC epic poet dramatist and satirist the most influential of the early Latin poets rightly called the founder of Roman literature Julius Firmicus Maternus – Christian Latin writer and astrologer Gaius Valerius Flaccus – c Roman poet He wrote an eight book epic the Argonautica on Jason s fabled quest for the Golden Fleece Venantius Fortunatus c – c poet and bishop of Poitiers whose Latin poems and hymns combine echoes of classical Latin poets with medieval tone Sextus Julius Frontinus c – Roman administrator and writer His most famous work De aquaeductu in two books written after he was appointed curator of the Roman water supply Aulus Gellius c – after Latin author and grammarian remembered for his miscellany Attic Nights in which many fragments of lost works are preserved Horace BC– BC Roman poet outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus Juvenal – most powerful of all Roman satiric poets Livy BC–AD one of the great Roman historians Lucretius c BC – c BC Roman poet and philosopher known for his single long poem De rerum natura Gnaeus Naevius c BC– c BC second of a triad of early Latin epic poets and dramatists between Livius Andronicus and Ennius Cornelius Nepos c BC – c BC Roman biographer His only extant work is a collection of biographies mostly from a lost larger work De Viris Illustribus on illustrious men Ovid BC– AD Roman poet noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses Persius – Roman satirist author of six satires which show the influence of Horace and of Stoicism and which were imitated by John Donne and translated by John Dryden Petronius d AD reputed author of the Satyricon a literary portrait of Roman society of the st century AD Plautus c BC– BC Roman comic dramatist whose works loosely adapted from Greek plays established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language Pliny the Elder – Roman savant and author of the celebrated Natural History Pliny the Younger – c Roman author and administrator Sextus Propertius BC– BC elegiac poet of ancient Rome Gaius Musonius Rufus st century AD Roman Stoic philosopher known as the teacher of Epictetus Sallust BC– BC Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists Silius Italicus c – Roman poet and politician He was the author of the longest surviving Latin poem Punica an epic in books on the Second Punic War – BC Statius c – c one of the principal Roman epic and lyric poets of the Silver Age of Latin literature – Suetonius – after Roman biographer and antiquarian whose writings include De viris illustribus and De vita Caesarum Quintus Aurelius Symmachus c – Roman statesman orator and writer who was a leading opponent of Christianity Tibullus c BC – c BC Roman poet Marcus Terentius Varro BC– BC scholar and satirist known for his Saturae Menippeae Marcus Velleius Paterculus c BC – c AD Roman historian Author of a short history of Rome which he wrote to commemorate the consulship of his friend Marcus Vinicius AD Virgil BC– BC Roman poet known for his national epic the Aeneid The Middle Ages edit Main article Italian literature See also Category Italian writers and Category Italian philosophers Albertanus of Brescia c – c Latin prose writer known work is Liber consolationis et consilii "The book of consolation and council" Dante Alighieri – poet known for the epic poem The Divine Comedy Cecco Angiolieri c – c poet who is considered by some the first master of Italian comic verse Anselm of Canterbury – founder of Scholasticism he was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the th century Thomas Aquinas c – philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition his most influential work is the Summa Theologica – which consists of three parts Bonaventure – leading medieval theologian philosopher minister general of the Franciscan order and cardinal bishop of Albano He wrote several works on the spiritual life Boncompagno da Signa c – philosopher grammarian and historian Guido Cavalcanti c – poet a major figure among the Florentine poets Gioacchino da Fiore – theologian mystic and esotericist His thoughts inspired many philosophical movements as the Joachimites and the Florians Dino Compagni c – historical writer and political figure Pietro d Abano – physician philosopher and astrologer Bonvesin da la Riva c – c poet and writer Francis of Assisi – founder of the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor Giacomo da Lentini fl th century poet He is traditionally credited with the invention of the sonnet Guido delle Colonne c – c jurist poet and Latin prose writer author of a prose narrative of the Trojan War entitled Historia destructionis Troiae completed about Guido Guinizelli c – considered a precursor of Dante and the originator of the so called dolce stil novo or sweet new style Guittone d Arezzo c – poet and the founder of the Tuscan School Jacobus de Voragine – archbishop of Genoa chronicler and author of the Golden Legend one of the most popular religious works of the Middle Ages Jacopone da Todi c – Franciscan poet he wrote many ardent mystical poems and is probably the author of the Latin poem Stabat Mater Dolorosa Lanfranc c – philosopher and theologian Brunetto Latini c – philosopher scholar and statesman wrote in French Li livres dou tresor the first vernacular encyclopedia Peter Lombard c – theologian his philosophical work the Four Books of Sentences was the standard theological text of the Middle Ages Marsilius of Padua – political philosopher whose work Defensor pacis "Defender of the Peace" one of the most revolutionary of medieval documents Matthew of Aquasparta – Franciscan and scholastic philosopher Michael of Cesena c – Franciscan general of that Order and theologian Thomas of Celano c – c Friar Minor and poet author of three hagiographies about Saint Francis of Assisi Giovanni Villani c – chronicler whose European attitude to history foreshadowed Humanism Humanism and the Renaissance edit Pietro Aretino – writer and satirist known for his literary attacks on his wealthy and powerful contemporaries and for six volumes of letters Ludovico Ariosto – poet remembered for his epic poem Orlando furioso Pietro Bembo – cardinal who wrote one of the earliest Italian grammars and assisted in establishing the Italian literary language Francesco Berni – poet important for the distinctive style of his Italian burlesque which was called bernesco and imitated by many poets Giovanni Boccaccio – poet and scholar author of De mulieribus claris the Decameron and poems in the vernacular Matteo Maria Boiardo – poet whose Orlando innamorato the first poem to combine elements of both Arthurian and Carolingian traditions of romance Giovanni Botero c – philosopher and diplomat known for his work The Reason of State Luigi Da Porto – writer and storiographer better known as the author of the novel Novella novamente ritrovata with the story of Romeo and Juliet later adapted by William Shakespeare for his famous drama Leonardo Bruni c – a leading historian of his time He wrote History of the Florentine People – is generally considered the first modern work of history Giordano Bruno – philosopher his major metaphysical works De la causa principio et Uno and De l infinito universo et Mondi were published in France Giulio Camillo c – philosopher known for his theatre described in his posthumously published work L Idea del Theatro Baldassare Castiglione – courtier diplomat and writer known for his dialogue The Book of the Courtier one of the great books of its time Francesco Colonna – author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Cesare Cremonini – Aristotelian philosopher at Padua University Mario Equicola c – writer author of Libro de natura de amore and Istituzioni del comporre in ogni sorta di rima della lingua volgare Marsilio Ficino – philosopher his chief work was Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae in which he combined Christian theology and Neoplatonic elements Francesco Filelfo – writer author of pieces in prose published under the title Convivia Mediolanensia and a great many Latin translations from the Greek Veronica Franco – poet and high ranking courtesan famous in her day for her intellectual and artistic accomplishments Giovanni Battista Guarini – poet who with Torquato Tasso is credited with establishing the form of a new literary genre the pastoral drama Francesco Guicciardini – historian author of the most important contemporary History of Italy the masterwork of Italian historical literature of the Renaissance Cristoforo Landino – writer he wrote three works framed as philosophical dialogues De anima De vera nobilitate and the Disputationes Camaldulenses c Niccolò Machiavelli – political philosopher and writer known for his The Prince written in and published in one of the world s most famous essays on political science Giannozzo Manetti – politician and diplomat significant scholar of the early Italian Renaissance Girolamo Mei – writer his treatise De modis musicis antiquorum a study of ancient Greek music greatly influenced the ideas of the Florentine Camerata Guidobaldo del Monte – mathematician philosopher and astronomer known for his work Mechanicorum Liber Gianfrancesco Straparola – writer whose collection of stories Le piacevoli notti contains the first known versions of many popular fairy tales Along with Basile he set the standards for the literary form of fairy tale Agostino Nifo c – or philosopher and commentator his principal works are De intellectu et daemonibus and De immortalitate animi Marius Nizolius – philosopher and scholar his major work was the Thesaurus Ciceronianus published in Franciscus Patricius – philosopher and scientist His two great works Discussionum peripateticorum libri XV and Nova de universis philosophia Petrarch – scholar and poet his Il Canzoniere had enormous influence on the poets of the th and th centuries Alessandro Piccolomini – philosopher his works include Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne o Raffaella and the comedies Amor costante and Alessandro Giovanni Pico della Mirandola – scholar and Platonist philosopher his Oration on the Dignity of Man is better known than any other philosophical text of the th century Bartolomeo Platina – writer and gastronomist Author of Lives of the Popes the first systematic handbook of papal history and On honourable pleasure and health the world s first printed cookbook Poliziano – poet and philologist among his works Stanze per la giostra incomplete and Orfeo Pietro Pomponazzi – philosopher his principal work is On the Immortality of the Soul Simone Porzio – philosopher His principal works are An homo bonus vel malus volens fiat and De mente humana Francesco Pucci – philosopher author of Forma d una repubblica cattolica Luigi Pulci – poet he ridiculed the heroic poems of his time in his mock epic Morgante Ottavio Rinuccini – poet courtier and opera librettist Coluccio Salutati – philosopher man of letters and a skilled writer Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition Jacopo Sannazaro – poet author of Arcadia – first pastoral romance Julius Caesar Scaliger – scholar author of De causis linguae Latinae and Poetics Sperone Speroni – philosopher and scholar he was one of the central members of Padua s literary academy Accademia degli Infiammati and wrote on both moral and literary matters Torquato Tasso – poet one of the foremost writers of the Renaissance celebrated for his heroic epic poem Jerusalem Delivered Bernardino Telesio – philosopher his chief work was De rerum natura iuxta propria principia marked the period of transition from Aristotelianism to modern thought Gian Giorgio Trissino – literary theorist philologist dramatist and poet an important innovator in Italian drama Lorenzo Valla – rhetorician and educator who attacked medieval traditions and anticipated views of the Protestant reformers Lucilio Vanini – philosopher author of Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino Magicum and De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis Benedetto Varchi – poet and historian known for his work Storia fiorentina vol published only in Giorgio Vasari – writer architect and painter known for his entertaining biographies of artists Le Vite de più eccellenti architetti pittori et scultori italiani Nicoletto Vernia – Averroist philosopher at the University of Padua Giovanni della Casa – poet writer and diplomat His Il Galateo the most celebrated etiquette book in European history set the foundation for modern etiquette polite behavior and manners literature The Baroque period and the Enlightenment edit Claudio Achillini – poet and jurist one of the better known Marinisti Vittorio Alfieri – tragic poet from to wrote verse tragedies his works include Filippo Oreste and Mirra Francesco Algarotti – philosopher and art critic author of a number of stimulating essays on the subjects of architecture the opera and painting Maria Gaetana Agnesi philosopher and mathematician first woman to write a mathematics handbook and first woman as mathematics professor in a University Giuseppe Marc Antonio Baretti – literary critic author of Italian Library Giambattista Basile c – poet his collection of short stories Pentamerone – provided the content later borrowed by Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm With Straparola he is one of the two fathers of fairy tale tradition Cesare Beccaria – philosopher criminologist and jurist works include his treatise Dei delitti e delle pene – Saverio Bettinelli – writer author of Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi Tommaso Campanella – Dominican philosopher and writer remembered for his socialistic work The City of the Sun Melchiorre Cesarotti – poet and translator author of Essay on the Philosophy of Taste and Essay on the Philosophy of Languages Elena Cornaro Piscopia – philosopher She was the first female to graduate from a university Lorenzo Da Ponte – poet and librettist his most important librettos were for Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte Carlo Denina – historian author of Delle rivoluzioni d Italia – and Delle revoluzioni della Germania Gaetano Filangieri – economist and state adviser he is known for his work The Science of Legislation vols – – Ferdinando Galiani – economist he published two treatises Della moneta and Dialogues sur le commerce des blés Antonio Genovesi – writer and political author of Disciplinarum Metaphysicarum Elementa – and Logica Pietro Giannone – historian Gilberto Yearwood Francisco Zelaya y Ayes Héctor Zelaya Manuel Zelaya Xiomara de Zelaya Oscar Zepeda Rita Marley Rocky Dawuni Sarkodie Sherifa Gunu Sway Yaw Osei Owusu ICT edit Augustine Yaw Blay Joe Anokye Nana Mensah Nii Quaynor Inventors and innovators edit Bright Simons Herman Chinery Hesse Thomas Mensah Others edit Taiye Selasi Ben Hinson Lauren and Megan Young Akiko Thomson Teófilo Yldefonso James Walsh Table Tennis edit Maharu Yoshimura Taekwondo edit Japoy Lizardo Monsour del Rosario Tennis edit Nino Alcantara Track & Field edit Joey Jacky Lydia de Vega Carlo Goldoni – playwright wrote more than dramatic works of all sorts including opera Gasparo Gozzi – poet critic and journalist His principal writings are Lettere famigliari Il Mondo morale and Osservatore Veneto periodico Giovanni Battista Guarini – poet and theoretician of literature his most well known work is Il pastor fido a pastoral tragicomedy Scipione Maffei – writer and art critic his most important works Conclusioni di amore La scienza cavalleresca and De fabula equestris ordinis Constantiniani Giambattista Marino – poet Founder of the school of Marinism later Secentismo among his principal works is L Adone a long narrative poem Metastasio – poet and librettist considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti His melodrama Attilio Regolo is generally considered his masterpiece Ludovico Antonio Muratori – historian author of Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi vols – and Annali d Italia vols – Ferrante Pallavicino – satirist and novelist his most important works Baccinata ouero battarella per le api barberine and La Retorica delle puttane Giuseppe Parini – prose writer and poet author of Dialogo sopra la nobiltà and Il giorno books – Cesare Ripa c – c aesthetician and writer author of the Iconologia overo Descrittione Dell imagini Universali cavate dall Antichità et da altri luoghi an influential emblem book Alessandro Verri – novelist and reformer author of Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni – and La vita di Erostrato Pietro Verri – political economist and writer his chief works are Riflessioni sulle leggi vincolanti and Meditazioni sull economia politica Giambattista Vico – philosopher and historian his major theories were developed in his Scienza nuova The s edit Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli – poet he described the vast panorama of Roman society in colorful dialect Giovanni Berchet – patriot and poet he wrote stirring patriotic ballads of a romantic type and rhymed romances such as Giulia and Matilde Luigi Capuana – critic and novelist among his best works are the short stories in Paesane and the novel Il marchese di Roccaverdina Giosuè Carducci – poet winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in and one of the most influential literary figures of his age Carlo Collodi – author and journalist best known as the creator of the canonical piece of children s literature and world s most translated non religious book Pinocchio Gabriele D Annunzio – poet military hero and political leader author of Il piacere L innocente Giovanni Episcopo and Il trionfo della morte Edmondo De Amicis – novelist and short story writer his most important work is the sentimental children s story Heart Federico De Roberto – writer known for his novel I Vicerè Francesco de Sanctis – historian and literary critic important works are his Saggi critici and his Storia della letteratura italiana – Antonio Fogazzaro – novelist and poet his famous Piccolo mondo antico it is considered one of the great Italian novels of the th century Ugo Foscolo – poet and patriot his popular novel The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis bitterly denounced Napoleon s cession of Venetia to Austria Vincenzo Gioberti – philosopher and political writer his most celebrated work is Del primato morale e civile degli italiani Giuseppe Giusti – satirical poet known for his poem Sant Ambrogio c Raimondo Guarini – archaeologist epigrapher poet authored the first Oscan Latin dictionary Giacomo Leopardi – poet and philosopher author of Canti – expressing a deeply pessimistic view of humanity and human nature Alessandro Manzoni – poet and novelist he is famous for the novel The Betrothed generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature Ippolito Nievo – writer and patriot known for his novel Confessioni di un Italiano also known as Confessioni d un ottuagenario which was published posthumously in Giovanni Pascoli – poet his works include Carmina in Latin the more mystical Myricae and the patriotic Odi e inni Silvio Pellico – dramatic poet his principal works are Francesca da Rimini and Le mie prigioni Antonio Rosmini Serbati – religious philosopher he is known for his work Nuovo saggio sull origine delle idee published in Emilio Salgari – adventure novelist for the young creator of popular heroic figure Sandokan Niccolò Tommaseo – poet and critic editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes – of a dictionary of synonyms and other works Giovanni Verga – novelist his works include Cavalleria rusticana I Malavoglia Novelle rusticane and Mastro Don Gesualdo The s edit Nicola Abbagnano – author of such books as La struttura dell esistenza He was the first and most important Italian existentialist Corrado Alvaro – novelist and journalist author of Gente in Aspromonte considered by most critics to be his masterpiece Giulio Angioni born novelist and anthropologist Giorgio Bassani – novelist his most acclaimed work The Garden of the Finzi Continis published in Carmelo Bene – actor poet theater director film director and screenwriter author of One Hamlet Less Salomè Vitaliano Brancati – writer in won the Bagutta Prize Gesualdo Bufalino – writer his novel Le menzogne della notte won the Strega Prize Dino Buzzati – writer novelist and painter his most famous work is a novel The Tartar Steppe published in Italo Calvino – novelist his trilogy of historical fantasies The Cloven Viscount The Baron in the Trees and The Nonexistent Knight brought him international acclaim Andrea Camilleri born writer the creator of the popular Inspector Salvo Montalbano Dino Campana – poet author of Canti Orfici Carlo Cassola – neorealist novelist known for his novel Bébo s Girl published in Benedetto Croce – historian humanist and foremost Italian philosopher of the first half of the th century Erri De Luca born poet and writer author of Aceto arcobaleno Tre cavalli and Montedidio Grazia Deledda – novelist She was awarded the Nobel Prize in her most well known works are Elias Portolu Cenere and La madre Umberto Eco born novelist internationally known for his novel The Name of the Rose Julius Evola – philosopher and social thinker one of the leading exponents of the Hermetic tradition Oriana Fallaci – author and political interviewer important works are her The Rage and the Pride and The Force of Reason Beppe Fenoglio – novelist he is known for his novel Il partigiano Johnny which was published posthumously and incomplete in Dario Fo born satirist playwright theater director actor and composer He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in Carlo Emilio Gadda – novelist known novel is That Awful Mess on Via Merulana Natalia Ginzburg – novelist known for her novels La strada che va in città È stato così and Le voci della sera Giovannino Guareschi – journalist and novelist known as author of The Little World of Don Camillo tr and its sequels Tommaso Landolfi – author and translator most known and translated work is Racconto d autunno Carlo Levi – writer painter and political journalist known for his book Christ Stopped at Eboli published in Primo Levi – writer and chemist his first memoir If This Is a Man has been described as one of the most important works of the th century Claudio Magris born writer author of Illazioni su una sciabola Danubio Stadelmann Un altro mare and Microcosmi Filippo Tommaso Marinetti – writer and novelist The ideological founder of Futurism among his works are Le Roi Bombance and Futurist Manifesto Fulvio Melia born writer and astrophysicist author of Electrodynamics The Edge of Infinity Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe and High Energy Astrophysics Eugenio Montale – poet whose works which greatly influenced th century Italian literature include Le Occasioni and Satura He won the Nobel Prize for literature Indro Montanelli – journalist and historian known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of Rome and History of the Greeks Elsa Morante – novelist and poet her most acclaimed work History published in