Below is a list of notable individuals from
Italy, distinguished by their connection to the nation through residence,
legal status, historical influence, or cultural impact. They are categorized based on their specific areas of achievement and prominence.
Nino Castelnuovo (1936–2021). Most famous for playing opposite Catherine Deneuve in the 1964 film Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and in Italy, for his lead performance in the popular 1967
RAI TV mini-series
I Promessi Sposi.
Tino Caspanello (born 1983), actor, playwright, director, and set designer
Adolfo Celi (1922–1986), actor and director, played Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball
Terence Hill (born 1939), actor, who became famous for playing in Italian western movies (also known as
Spaghetti Westerns).
Roberto Lamarca (1959–2017), actor migrated in Venezuela. He is most recognised for his portrayal of Arístides Valerio, on the
RCTV telenovela Por estas calles.
Sophia Loren, actress. Her performance in the film
Two Women (1960) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance.
Lorenzo Maitani (c. 1275–1330), architect and sculptor; primarily responsible for the construction and decoration of the façade of
Orvieto Cathedral.[2]
Filarete (c. 1400– c. 1469), architect, sculptor and writer. He wrote an important treatise, Libro architettonico (1464), defending the principles of ancient architecture.
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1502), architect and theoretician. His Trattato di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1482) is one of the most important documents of Renaissance architectural theory.
Luciano Laurana (c. 1420–1479), principal designer of the
Palazzo Ducale at Urbino and one of the main figures in 15th century Italian architecture.[4]
Vincenzo Scamozzi (1552–1616), architect and theoretician, author of one of the most comprehensive
Renaissance treatises, the six-volume L’Idea dell’Architettura Universale (1615).[6]
Guarino Guarini (1624–1683), architect. He was one of the first to analyse with perceptivity the structure of medieval architecture, in his treatise Architettura Civile (published posthumously in 1737).
Filippo Juvarra (1678–1736), architect, draughtsman and designer
Vincenzo Sinatra (1720–1765), architect. Following the 1693
Noto earthquake, Sinatra was responsible for many of the new buildings in the new city of Noto.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), engraver and architect, known for his grandiose architectural constructions.
Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), architect and painter, known as the builder of numerous works in Russia during and immediately after the reign of
Catherine II the Great.[7]
Carlo Rossi (1775–1849), architect, who worked the major portion of his life in Russia.
Francesco Tamburini (1846–1891), architect who designed many important architectural landmarks in Argentina.
Faustino Trebbi (1761–1836), architect and ornamental painter.
Giuseppe Valadier (1762–1839), architect, urban planner, designer and writer. He was one of the most important exponents of international Neoclassicism in
central Italy.
The 1900s
Franco Albini (1905–1977), architect, urban planner and designer. His work was various and
eclectic, and reflected the independence of Italian designs from the tyrannies of Modernist orthodoxy.
Mario Bellini (born 1935), architect and designer. He won
Compasso d'Oro the eight times, and the Gold Medal of Civic Merit of the city of
Milan.
Cini Boeri (1924–2020), architect and designer who won many awards and prizes.
Stefano Boeri (born 1956), architect and editor, founder of the research group "Multiplicity", former editor-in-chief of the magazines "
Abitare" and "Domus".
Franca Helg (1920–1989), architect, designer, and academic.
Adalberto Libera (1903–1963), architect. One of the most representative architects of the Italian Modern movement.
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979), structural engineer and architect known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete, especially with numerous notable thin shell structures worldwide.
Alessandro Mendini (1931–2019), designer and architect. His work is represented in museums and private collections all over the world.
Giovanni Michelucci (1891–1990), architect, urban planner and engraver. A key figure in the progress and advancement of contemporary Italian architecture during the 20th century.
Carlo Mollino (1905–1973), architect, designer, race car and aircraft driver.
Luigi Moretti (1907–1973), architect. One of the most important Italian architects of the 20th century.
Giovanni Muzio (1893–1982), architect. He was the most influential member of the group of Italian architects associated with the
Novecento Italiano.
Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960), architect and urban theorist most closely associated with Italy's
fascist government.
Paolo Portoghesi (1931–2023), architect and architectural historian; became known as the creator of the original and significant Casa Baldi (1959) on the
Via Flaminia.
Jorge Rigamonti (1948–2008), architect migrated in Venezuela who produced national and international award-winning designs, an active architecture professor for over 30 years.
Lella and
Massimo Vignelli (1934–2016 and 1934–2014 respectively), architects and designers known for packaging, houseware, furniture, public signage, and showroom design.
Marco Zanuso (1916–2001), leading modernist architect and designer.
Bruno Zevi (1918–2000), architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of "classicizing" modern architecture and postmodernism.
Pellegrino Artusi (1820–1911), writer and gastronomist, credited with establishing a truly national
Italian cuisine. His La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiare bene (1891) was the first gastronomic treatise comprising all regions of united Italy.
Martino da Como (c. 1430– late 15th century), "Prince of cooks", considered the western world's first celebrity chef. His book Libro de Arte Coquinaria (1465) was a benchmark for Italian cuisine and laid the ground for European gastronomic tradition.
Carlo Petrini (born 1949), politician, writer and gastronomist. Taking part in a campaign against the
McDonald's chain and a busy daily routine, he founded the worldwide influential
Slow Food movement in 1986.
Sirio Maccioni (1932–2020), restaurateur and author known for opening
Le Cirque of New York.
Battista Farina (1893–1966), automobile designer and the founder of the Carrozzeria
Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many well-known postwar cars.
Matteo Goffriller (1659–1742), master luthier, particularly noted for the quality of his cellos. He was the founder of the "Venetian School" of luthiers.
Secondo Campini (1904–1980), aircraft designer whose
Caproni Campini N.1 made the first jet-powered aircraft flight announced to the public
Alessandro Capra (c. 1608 – c. 1684), engineer, inventor, and mathematician
Giovanni Battista Caproni (1886–1957), aeronautical engineer, civil engineer, electrical engineer, and aircraft designer who founded an aircraft-manufacturing company bearing his
name (1908).
Giorgio Carta, bioengineer, professor of chemical engineering
Bernard Castro (1904–1991), industrial engineer, inventor of the modern convertible
couch
Leonardo Chiariglione (born 1943), electrical engineer, inventor and co-founder of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (
MPEG). He led a team that set the universal standards for digital audio and video, such as the mpeg and the
mp3.[9][10]
Aldo Costa (born 1961), engineer and engineering director; his 14 constructors' championships and 12 drivers' titles with Ferrari and Mercedes make him the most successful engineer and designer in
F1 history.
Mario Masciulli (1909–1991), military engineer of the Italian Regia Marina, director of the Office of Submarine Secret Weapons during World War II. He was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
Luigi Negrelli (1799–1858), civil and hydraulic engineer; designed several bridges and railways in the
Austrian Empire and well beyond, known for planning and designing the
Suez Canal.[11]
Maria Artini (1894–1951), first female university graduate in electrical engineering in Italy (1918).
Federico Faggin (born 1941), physicist, engineer, credited with developing the Self Aligned MOS Silicon Gate Technology, co-invented and designed the world's first
microprocessor, the
Intel 4004 (1970–1971).[12]
Giorgina Madìa (1904–1942), physicist and electrical engineer, specializing in electrical communications, and a member of the Italian resistance during World War II.
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) engineer, specialized in civil engineering. He collaborated with international architects, including
Le Corbusier and
Louis Kahn.
Germain Sommeiller (1815–1871), civil engineer. He directed the construction of the
Fréjus Rail Tunnel between France and Italy; introduced the first industrial
pneumatic drill for tunnel digging.
John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) (c. 1450– 1499), explorer for England
Sebastian Cabot (Sebastiano Caboto) (c. 1476–1557), cartographer and explorer for England and Spain, he explored the
Río de la Plata, the
Paraná River and was the person European to arrive in the lower section of the
Paraguay River.
Filippo Salvatore Gilii (1721–1789), Jesuit priest who explored the basin of Orinoco River. Gilii is a highly celebrated figure in early South American linguistics due to his advanced insights into the nature of languages.
Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324), explorer and merchant, famous for his travels in
central Asia and China.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), explorer. Was the first European to arrive at the
Amazon river in South America. The name for the
Americas is derived from his given name.
Romolo Gessi (1831–1881), explorer and soldier. He led numerous expeditions for the British in Africa, especially
Sudan and the
Nile River, freeing 30,000 slaves from bondage.
Pupi Avati (born 1938), film director, producer and screenwriter. Some of his most successful films were Impiegati (1985), Christmas Present (1986) and The Last Minute (1987).
Roberto Benigni (born 1952), film director and actor. One of the most popular comics of
Italian cinema; in 1997 he wrote, directed and starred in the international hit Life is Beautiful
Alessandro Blasetti (1900–1987), film director and screenwriter was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s. Blasetti influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole.
Frank Capra (1897–1991), film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Giuseppe De Santis (1917–1997), film director; known for his direction of Bitter Rice (1949), considered the first successful Neorealist film
Vittorio De Seta (1923–2011), film director. He made nine such short documentaries over the decade and in 1960 made his feature film directorial debut with the acclaimed Banditi a Orgosolo
Ruggero Deodato (1939–2022), film director, actor and screenwriter. Creator of one of the most infamous splatter films of all time, 1979's neo-realist Amazonian nightmare Cannibal Holocaust
Lucio Fulci (1927–1996), film director, screenwriter and actor, known for his directorial work on
gore films, including Zombi 2 (1979) and The Beyond (1981).
Pietro Germi (1914–1974), film director and actor. The film Divorce Italian Style (1961) was a huge worldwide box-office hit which earned him an
Oscar for best screenplay
Alberto Lattuada (1914–2005), film director. Was a major figure in
Italian cinema of the period after World War II. Known for co-directing with Fellini on his first film, Variety Lights (1950)
Giovanni Pastrone (1883–1959), film director and producer. He conceived a colossal film designed to revolutionize movie-making, a goal he realized with Cabiria (1914)[22]
Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977), film director. His films Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisà (1946) focussed international attention on the Italian Neorealist movement in films[23]
Valerio Zurlini (1926–1982), film director, stage director and screenwriter. He is well known for his internationally successful Estate Violenta (1959)
Enrico Mazzanti (1850–1910), engineer and cartoonist, who illustrated the first edition of Pinocchio
Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835), illustrator and engraver. He illustrated in his figures the costumes of the Italian peoples, the great epic poems and numerous other subjects
Valentina Romeo (born 1977), cartoonist, illustrator, billiards player
Mezentius, legendary Etruscan king who reigned at
Caere and fought against
Aeneas
Lars Porsena (6th century BC), legendary Etruscan king, alleged to have besieged Rome in a vain attempt to reinstate
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus on the throne
Lars Tolumnius (died 428 BC), the most famous king of the wealthy Etruscan city-state of
Veii
Ancient Rome
Agrippa Menenius Lanatus (died 493 BC), consul of the Roman Republic in 503 BC, with Publius Postumius Tubertus. Victorious over the Sabines and was awarded a triumph which he celebrated on 4 April, 503 BC.
Scipio Aemilianus (185 BC–129 BC), Roman general famed both for his exploits during the
Third Punic War (149–146 BC) and for his subjugation of Spain (134–133 BC)[25]
Caligula (31 August 12–24 January 41 AD) was Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD. Was widely considered to be one of Rome's most cruel and sadistic emperors ever to rule
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 89 or 88 BC–late 13 or early 12 BC), Roman statesman, one of the
triumvirs who ruled Rome after 43 BC
Augustus (63 BC–AD 14), first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors. One of the great administrative geniuses of history[26]
Publius Quinctilius Varus (46 BC – AD 9), Roman general and politician. Varus is generally remembered for having lost three Roman legions when ambushed by Germanic tribes led by Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, whereupon he took his own life.
Marcus Aurelius (121–180), Roman emperor, has symbolized for many generations in the West the Golden Age of the
Roman Empire[27]
Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC–42 BC), Roman politician, leader of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar (44 BC)
Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), Roman statesman and general, famous for the
conquest of Gaul. A figure of genius and audacity equaled by few in history[28]
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236/235 BC–183 BC), general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War.One of the great military minds of
all times[32]
Publius Clodius Pulcher (c. 93 BC–52 BC), disruptive politician, head of a band of political thugs, and bitter enemy of Cicero in late republican Rome
Trajan (53–117), Emperor who presided over the greatest expansion in Roman history. He was born in
Italica, a colony of Italian settlers in
Hispania, and his family was from
Umbria
Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c. 229 BC–174 BC), Roman general and statesman who established the Roman hegemony over Greece[36]
Quintus Sertorius (c. 126 BC–73 BC), one of the most able Roman generals, who displayed a particular genius for leading armies of irregulars[37]
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC–12 BC), Roman statesman and general; he was long honored by the Roman military as the inventor of the
Harpax
Gaius Ofonius Tigellinus (c. 10–69), prefect of the Roman Imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 62 until 68, during the reign of Emperor Nero.
Flavius Aetius (391–454), military commander and the most influential man in the Roman Empire for two decades (433–454). He was called as The Last Roman
Pope Adrian I (c. 700–795), pope from 772 to 795; his pontificate was unequalled in length by that of any successor of
Saint Peter until a thousand years later
Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105–1181), pope from 1159 to 1181. He is remembered for the long-standing dispute with the Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I
Ambrose (337 or 340–397), bishop of
Milan; one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the
4th century; he was also the teacher of
Saint Augustine
Pope Gregory I (c. 540–604), founder" of the medieval papacy, which exercised both secular and spiritual power;[41] he is considered one of the great
Latin Fathers of the Church
Pope Honorius I (?–638), pope from 625 to 638 whose posthumous condemnation as a heretic subsequently caused extensive controversy on the question of
papal infallibility[42]
Pope John II (?–535), pope from 533 to 535. He was the first pontiff to change his original name, which he considered
pagan, assuming the name of the martyred
Saint John I (523–526)[44]
Pope Julius II (1443–1513), pope from 1503 to 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope or the Fearsome Pope, he chose his papal name not in honour of Pope Julius I but in emulation of Julius Caesar.
Pope Leo I (c. 400–461), pope from 440 to 461, master exponent of papal supremacy[45]
Pope Nicholas I (c. 800–867), pope from 858 to 867, master theorist of papal power, considered to have been the most forceful of the
early medieval pontiffs[46]
Paulinus of Nola (353–431),
bishop of
Nola and one of the most important Christian Latin poets of his time. He is also the inventor of church
bells
Romuald (c. 950–1025–1027), Christian ascetic who founded the
Camaldolese Benedictines (Hermits)
Pope Stephen II (715–757), pope from 752 to 757. He severed ties with the
Byzantine Empire and thus became the first temporal sovereign of the newly founded Papal States[48]
Pope Sylvester I (?–335), one of the most illustrious popes of
his age; after his death, became a major figure of legend
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360–1429), restored the family fortune and made the Medici family the wealthiest in Europe
Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), leader of Florence during the Golden Age of the
Renaissance; patron of arts and letters, the most brilliant of the Medici
Cesare Borgia (1475/1476–1507), Spanish-Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. Powerful lord, and a leading figure in the politics of his era
Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400–1475), condottiere, at various times in Venetian and Milanese service and from 1454 general in chief of the
Republic of Venice for life
Andrea Doria (1466–1560), condottiere, and admiral who was the foremost naval leader of his time[52]
Erasmo of Narni (1370–1443, known as Gattamelata), served Florence, Venice and the pope before becoming dictator of Padua
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250), King of Sicily and promoter of Sicilian culture and political power; expanded domain into much of Italy[53]
Federico da Montefeltro (1422–1482),
lord of Urbino from 1444 (as Duke from 1474) until his death. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful condottieri of his time
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (1418–1453), kinsman to the powerful house of Doria in Genoa and
protostrator of the Byzantine Empire, who led the defense of Constantinople against the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II in 1453.
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), condottiero and nobleman. He was widely considered by his contemporaries as one of the most daring military leaders in Italy
Giovanni Dionigi Galeni (1519–1587), farmer, then Ottoman privateer and admiral, who later became beylerbey of the Regency of Algiers, and finally Grand Admiral of the Ottoman fleet
Francesco I Sforza (1401–1466), condottiere who played a crucial role in 15th-century Italian politics
Muzio Sforza (1369–1424), soldier of fortune who played an important role in the wars of his period and whose son Francesco became duke of Milan
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562–1630), skilled soldier and shrewd politician. He was nicknamed Testa d'feu ("Head of Fire") for his rashness and military attitudes
Pasquale Paoli (1725–1807), statesman and general, hailed as the father of
Corsica. He wrote and promulgated the modern world's first democratic constitution in 1755[54][55]
Pietro Micca (1677–1706), the
miner who at the sacrifice of his own life saved the citadel of Turin (1706) from French troops
Francesco Morosini (1619–1694),
doge of
Venice (1688–94), of a family distinguished in Venice for five centuries
Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666–1732), King of Sicily (1713–1720) and of Sardinia (1720–1730), established the foundation for the future Italian national state
Juan Bautista Cambiaso (1820–1886), sailor and soldier, best known for helping establish the naval forces of the nascent Dominican Republic
Francesco Crispi (1819–1901), statesman who, after being exiled from Naples and Sardinia-Piedmont for revolutionary activities, eventually became premier of a united Italy[57]
Francesco de Pinedo (1890–1933), aviator officer who is best known for his long-range flying boat flights in the 1920s that demonstrated the feasibility of global air travel.
Armando Diaz (1861–1928), general and a Marshal of Italy during the I World War
Orestes Ferrara (1876-1972), attorney and journalist, who fought for Cuba's independence who founded one of the best newspapers of
La Habana
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento; contributed to the achievement of Italian unification under the royal
House of Savoy
Giovanni Giolitti (1842–1928), statesman and five times prime minister under whose leadership Italy prospered
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), intellectual and politician, a founder of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas greatly influenced Italian communism[58]
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860–1952), Prime Minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. Known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I
Giacomo Matteotti (1885–1924), socialist politician. He strongly denounced the
National Fascist Party. Two weeks after his speech, he was kidnapped and murdered by fascists
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), propagandist and revolutionary; a champion of the movement for Italian unity known as the Risorgimento
Coriolano Ponza di San Martino (1842–1926), general and politician. Senator of the Kingdom and Minister of War in the Pelloux II, Saracco and Zanardelli governments.
Carlo Rosselli (1899–1937), political leader, journalist, and historian. He was committed to the anti-fascist struggle in
Italy and in the
Spanish Civil War
Enrico De Nicola (1877–1959), politician, the first provisional Head of State of the
newborn republic of Italy from 1946 to 1948
Antonio Di Pietro (born 1950), jurist and politician who uncovered a wide-ranging government
corruption scandal
Luigi Einaudi (1874–1961), economist and statesman, the first president (1948–55) of the Republic of Italy[66]
Mario Draghi (born 1947), politician, economist, banker, prime minister of Italy since 2021. He served as President of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019
Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999), leader served five times as premier of Italy
Aldo Moro (1916–1978), leader of the Christian Democratic Party, who served five times as premier of Italy. In 1978 he was kidnapped and subsequently murdered by
left-wing terrorists[67]
Romano Prodi (born 1939), politician who was twice prime minister of Italy (1996–98; 2006–08) and who served as president of the
European Commission (1999–2004)[68]
Antonio Segni (1891–1972), statesman, twice premier (1955–57, 1959–60), and fourth president (1962–64) of Italy
Luigi Sturzo (1871–1959), priest, public official, and political organizer who founded a party that was a forerunner of the Italian Christian Democrat movement[69]
Palmiro Togliatti (1893–1964), politician who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly 40 years and made it the largest in Europe[70]
Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370–1412), composer and theorist. His open melodic style, clarity of texture, and "modern" sense of harmonic direction make him an attractive and accessible composer
Gherardello da Firenze (c. 1320/1325–1362–1363), composer. He was known for his liturgical compositions but only two mass movements have survived
Francesco Landini (c. 1325/1335–1397), composer, organist and poet. Celebrated in his own day as a master of the Italian ars nova style, among his works are madrigals, cacce, and ballate
Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), composer and singer; Le nuove musiche (1602), a collection of songs with basso continuo, was of landmark importance in establishing the new monodic style
Andrea Gabrieli (1532/33–1585), composer and organist, known for his madrigals and his large-scale choral and
instrumental music for public ceremonies[75]
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557–1612), composer and organist. He was one of the most influential musicians of his time
Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613), composer and lutist. He is famous for his intensely expressive
madrigals, which use a
chromatic language not heard of until the 19th century
Luca Marenzio (1553–1599), composer whose madrigals are considered to be among the finest examples of Italian
madrigals of the late 16th century[76]
Claudio Merulo (1533–1604), composer. He was organist of
Brescia Cathedral (1556–7) and of
St Mark's Basilica,
Venice (1557–84), where he was also an organ consultant, publisher and teacher
Francesca Caccini (1587–1641), composer and singer, daughter of
Giulio Caccini. She was the first woman to compose
opera and probably the most prolific woman composer of her time
Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762), composer, violinist, teacher, writer on musical
performance, and a leading figure in early 18th-century music[80]
Leonardo Leo (1694–1744), composer who was noted for his
comic operas and who was instrumental in forming the Neapolitan style of opera composition
Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764), composer and violinist. His influential L′arte del violino (1733) contains 12 solo violin concertos and 24 caprices for solo violin
Nicola Porpora (1686–1768), composer. Leading Italian teacher of singing of the 18th century[82]
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725), composer of operas and religious works. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), composer noted particularly for his 555 keyboard
sonatas, which substantially expanded the technical and musical possibilities of the
harpsichord[83]
Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677), virtuoso singer and composer of
vocal music, one of only a few women in the 17th century to publish their own compositions
Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), violinist, composer, and theorist who helped establish the modern style of violin bowing and formulated principles of
musical ornamentation and harmony[84]
Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726), organist and composer. He migrated to Córdoba, Viceroyalty of Peru. He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reductions of Paraguay where he taught music among the Guaraní people.
Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841), guitarist, composer and teacher. Known for his concertos, sonatas, studies, variations and transcriptions (over 300 opus numbers)
Giovanni Battista Martini (1706–1784), composer, music theorist, and music historian who was internationally renowned as a teacher[86]
Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816), one of the most successful and influential opera composers of his time. He composed more than 80 operas, including a very popular Barber of Seville (1782)[87]
Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800), composer of more than 100 operas. His most famous opera was La buona figliuola (1760), which established him as one of the leading composers of his day
Antonio Salieri (1750–1825), composer whose operas were acclaimed throughout Europe in the late 18th century
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700/1701–1775), composer who was an important formative influence on the pre-Classical symphony
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824), violinist and composer, principal founder of the 19th-century school of violin playing
Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), composer and poet. He is remembered for his opera Mefistofele (1868)
Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893), composer of the popular opera La Wally (1892). His operas were among the most important in the period preceding the
verismo school
Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), operatic composer, one of the principal exponents of
verismo. Mascagni came up with his masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana in 1890 to tremendous success
Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870), composer, teacher and orchestrator. He is considered to have been an important reformer of
Italian opera
Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909), composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Sometimes called "the Italian Brahms"
Alfredo Antonini (1901–1983), conductor and composer who was active on the
CBS radio and television networks from the 1930s through the early 1970s
Pippo Barzizza (1902–1994), composer, arranger, conductor and music director
Luciano Berio (1925–2003), musician, whose success as theorist, conductor, composer, and teacher placed him among the leading representatives of the musical
avant-garde[88]
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), pianist and composer who attained fame as a pianist of brilliance and intellectual power
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), composer and opera librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs it is his opera Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas
Ennio Morricone (1928–2020), composer and conductor. He is considered one of the most prolific and influential film composers of his era
Luigi Nono (1924–1990), leading Italian composer of electronic, aleatory, and serial music
Riz Ortolani (1926–2014), composer and conductor. He scored over 200 films and television programs In 2013, he received a Lifetime Achievement from the World Soundtrack Academy.
Goffredo Petrassi (1904–2003), composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher
Lorenzo Perosi (1873–1956), composer of sacred music and the only member of the
Giovane Scuola who did not write opera.
Piero Piccioni (1921–2004), composer, pianist, organist, conductor, lawyer, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks
Salvatore Accardo (born 1941), violinist and conductor, who is known for his interpretations of the works of Niccolò Paganini.
Alfredo Antonini (1901–1983), leading symphony conductor and composer who was active on the international concert stage as well as on the
CBS radio and television
Enrico Bevignani (1841–1903), conductor, harpsichordist, composer, chief conductor at the Royal Opera House, La Fenice, Mariinsky Theatre and the Bolshoi where notably conducted the world premiere of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin in 1879.
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), pianist, conductor and composer who attained fame as a pianist of brilliance and intellectual power
Guido Cantelli (1920–1956), conductor.
Arturo Toscanini elected him his "spiritual heir" since the beginnings of his career
Primo Casale (1904–1981), conductor, composer, and violinist. Promotor of the opera in Venezuela since 1948
Riccardo Chailly (born 1953), conductor known for his devotion to contemporary music, and for his attempts to modernize approaches to the traditional symphonic repertory
Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930), conductor, composer of ballet music and Italian opera, and a pianist.
Victor de Sabata (1892–1967), conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the 20th century
Piero Gamba (1936–2022), also known as Pierino Gamba, orchestral conductor and pianist. Gamba came to attention as a child prodigy.
Daniele Gatti (born 1961), conductor. He is considered the foremost conductor of his generation"[93]
Franco Ferrara (1911–1985), conductor and teacher ofvarious prominent conductors, including Roberto Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Andrew Davis and Riccardo Muti
Mantovani (1905–1980), known mononymously as Mantovani, conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature.
Riccardo Muti (born 1941), conductor of both opera and the symphonic repertory. He became one of the most respected and charismatic conductors of his generation[94]
Giorgio Polacco (1875–1960), conductor of the Metropolitan Opera from 1915 to 1917 and the Chicago Civic Opera from 1921 to 1930
Claudio Scimone (1934–2018), conductor. He founded
I Solisti Veneti in 1959, specializing in 18th-century and 20th-century Italian music
Antonio Bernacchi (1685–1756), contralto castrato, sang in operas throughout Italy and also abroad, notably at Munich and for
Handel in London
Caffarelli (1710–1783), contralto castrato. A pupil of
Nicola Porpora; he sang for Handel in London, England, in 1738, creating the title roles in Faramondo and Serse
Giovanni Carestini (c. 1704 – c. 1760), contralto castrato, one of the foremost of his time. Début Rome 1721
Giacinto Fontana, called "Farfallino" (1692–1739), soprano castrato. He was active primarily in Rome, specialized in performing female roles (women were not permitted to appear onstage in the
Papal States)
Nicolò Grimaldi (1673–1732), mezzo-soprano castrato known for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in two of whose early operas he sang
Giuseppe Millico, called "Il Moscovita" (1737–1802), soprano castrato, known for his association with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, he performed in all the latter's reform operas.
Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922), soprano castrato, known as the angel of Rome "because of vocal purity[98]
Gaspare Pacchierotti (1740–1821), soprano castrato, one of the most famous singers of his time
Senesino (1686–1758), contralto castrato, renowned for his power and his skill in both
coloratura and expressive singing
Giovanni Velluti (1780–1861), soprano. The last of the leading castrate singers
Maria Caniglia (1905–1979), soprano; one of the leading Italian dramatic sopranos of the 1930s and 1940s
Mariella Devia (born 1948), after beginning her forty-five-year-long career as a lyric coloratura soprano, in recent years she has enjoyed success with some of the most dramatic roles in the bel canto repertoire.
Mirella Freni (1935–2020), soprano; one of the dominant figures on the opera scene; she has since performed at many venues, including
Milan,
Vienna and
Salzburg
Claudia Muzio (1889–1936), operatic soprano, whose international career was among the most successful of the early 20th century. She brought drama and pathos to all her roles
Giuditta Pasta (1797–1865), soprano. She was famed for her roles in the operas of
Rossini,
Bellini and
Donizetti; acclaimed for her vocal range and expressiveness
Adelina Patti (1843–1919), soprano; one of the great coloratura singers of the 19th century
Amelia Pinto (1876–1946), remembered for Wagner and Puccini performances
Renata Scotto (born 1934), soprano and opera director; considered one of the preeminent singers of her generation, specializing in the
bel canto repertoire
Renata Tebaldi (1922–2004), lyric soprano; one of the most acclaimed members of the Metropolitan Opera company from 1955 to 1973, and retired from singing in 1976
Luisa Tetrazzini (1871–1940), coloratura soprano; one of the finest of her time
Ebe Stignani (1903/1904–1974), mezzo-soprano; member of the
Scala ensemble and was regarded as its leading exponent of dramatic contralto and mezzo roles
Lucia Valentini Terrani (1946–1998), mezzo-soprano, she was particularly associated with Rossini roles
Carlo Bergonzi (1924–2014), lyric tenor; from 1956 to 1983, his beautiful voice was a fixture in the 19th-century Italian and French repertoire at the
Metropolitan Opera[100]
Beniamino Gigli (1890–1957), lyric-leggero tenor. The most famous tenor of his generation; was a leading in French and Italian operas from 1920 to 1932
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (1892–1979), lyric-spinto tenor; he performed throughout Europe and the Americas in a top-class career that spanned 40 years
Giovanni Martinelli (1885–1969), spinto tenor; his repertoire of about 50 roles included the leading tenor roles in nearly all the principal Italian operas[102]
Renato Bruson (born 1934), operatic baritone; one of the most important
Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century
Piero Cappuccilli (1926–2005), operatic baritone; enjoyed a 35-year career during which he was widely regarded as the leading Italian baritone of his generation[103]
Antonio Scotti (1866–1936), baritone a principal artist of the New York Metropolitan Opera for more than 33 seasons, but also sang with great success at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Milan's La Scala
Giuseppe Taddei (1916–2010), baritone; he has performed more than 100 operatic roles over six decades
Basses
Salvatore Baccaloni (1900–1969), operatic bass; known for his large repertory, he sang nearly 170 roles in five languages
Altichiero (c. 1330 – c. 1390), painter who was the effective founder of the Veronese school and perhaps the most significant northern Italian artist of the 14th century[104]
Bonaventura Berlinghieri (fl. 1235–1244), painter of the
Gothic period. His most celebrated work is St. Francis of Assisi (1235); one of the earliest icons of the
Saint
Cimabue (before 1251–1302), painter and mosaicist. Among his works may be cited the Sta. Trinità Madonna (c. 1290) and the Madonna Enthroned with St. Francis (c. 1290 – 95)
Coppo di Marcovaldo (fl. 1260–1276), painter, one of the earliest about whom there is a body of documented knowledge. His one signed work is the Madonna del Bordone (1261)
Bernardo Daddi (c. 1280 – 1348), painter, the outstanding painter in Florence in the period after the death of Giotto (who was possibly his teacher)[105]
Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344), painter, important exponent of Gothic art. Among his works may be cited the Maestà fresco (1315) and Annunciation and two Saints (1333)
Lippo Memmi (c. 1291 – 1356), painter from
Siena. One of the artists who worked at the
Orvieto Cathedral, for which he finished the Madonna dei Raccomandati (c. 1320)
Orcagna (c. 1308 – 1368), painter, sculptor and architect. He was one of the leading artists of his day[107]
Paolo Veneziano (fl. 1333–1358), painter and possibly illuminator. He was by far the most prolific and influential Venetian painter of the early 14th century[108]
Giunta Pisano (fl. 1236–1255),[109] painter. Three large
Crucifixions are ascribed to the same master, whose signature can be traced on them
Mariotto Albertinelli (1474–1515), painter, known for The Visitation (1503) and The Annunciation (1510)
Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), painter. His varied output included altarpieces, portraits, and tapestry designs. The Pearl Fishing (1570–1572) is generally considered his masterpiece
Andrea del Castagno (c. 1421 – 1457), painter in the early Florentine Renaissance. Known for a series of monumental frescoes depicting the
Last Supper
Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), 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. 1515 – 1526)
Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435 – 1488), sculptor and painter. Among his principal paintings are Baptism of Christ (1472–1475) and several versions of the Madonna and Child
Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1535 – 1625), painter, mainly of portraits, the first woman artist to win international renown[110]
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593), 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 (1425–1499), painter. He contributed importantly to the fledgling art of landscape painting[111]
Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440–before 1516), painter and printmaker. His few surviving paintings (about twelve) include the first known example of trompe-l'œil since antiquity
Federico Barocci (c. 1526 – 1612), leading painter of the central Italian school in the last decades of the 16th century and an important precursor of the
Baroque style
Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 1592), painter of the
Venetian school, known for his religious paintings, lush landscapes, and scenes of everyday life
Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486–1551), painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and illuminator. He was one of the protagonists of Tuscan Mannerism[112]
Gentile Bellini (c. 1429 – 1507), painter, member of the founding family of the
Venetian school of Renaissance painting, known for his portraiture and his scenes of Venice
Boccaccio Boccaccino (c. 1467 – c. 1525), 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 (1466/1467–1516), painter. He was a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, whose style he adhered to faithfully
Paris Bordone (1500–1571), painter of religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects, known for his striking sexualized paintings of women
Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – 1510), painter of the Florentine school. The Primavera (c. 1482) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1486) rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art
Francesco Botticini (1446–1498), painter profoundly influenced by Castagno; worked under and was formed by Cosimo Rosselli and Verrocchio
Bramantino (c. 1456 – c. 1530), painter and architect, a follower of Bramante, from whom he takes his nickname
Bronzino (1503–1572), painter. He is noted chiefly for his stylized portraits. Of his religious works, Deposition of Christ (1540–1545) is the most famous
Luca Cambiasi (1527–1585), painter and draughtsman. He was the outstanding Genoese painter of the 16th century
Cennino Cennini (c. 1370 – c. 1440), painter, known for writing Il libro dell'arte (1437), source on the methods, techniques, and attitudes of medieval artists[114]
Cigoli (1559–1613), painter, draughtsman, architect and scenographer. He was one of the most influential artists in 17th-century Florence[115]
Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), painter of the Venetian school whose style was marked by its use of landscape and by airy, luminous colour
Niccolò Antonio Colantonio (fl. 1440–1470), painter, based in
Naples, where he painted religious paintings in a style marked by Flemish influence
Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430 – c. 1477), painter of the Ferrarese school, best known works are the frescoes in the
Palazzo Schifanoia at
Ferrara (probably commissioned in 1469)
Lorenzo Costa (1460–1535), painter of the Ferrarese and Bolognese schools, known for his painting the Madonna and Child with the Bentivoglio family (1483)
Carlo Crivelli (c. 1435 – c. 1495), 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. 1509 – 1566), painter and sculptor, noted for his finely drawn, highly idealized figures done in the style of Michelangelo
Ercole de' Roberti (c. 1451 – 1496), painter. His dynamic figurative compositions are marked by an exceptional intensity of feeling
Francesco de' Rossi (1510–1563), painter and designer, one of the leading Mannerist fresco painters of the Florentine-Roman school[116]
Fra Bartolomeo (1472–1517), painter, a leading figure of the High Renaissance. Noted for his austere religious works
Franciabigio (1482–1525), painter, known for his portraits and religious paintings
Agnolo Gaddi (c. 1350 – 1396), painter. He was an influential and prolific artist who was the last major Florentine painter stylistically descended from Giotto[120]
Fede Galizia (1578–1630), painter, one of the earliest
still life painters in Italy, who was also known for miniature portraits, landscapes, and religious subjects
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483–1561), painter. He was the son of Domenico Ghirlandaio, and was trained in his father's workshop
Giorgione (c. 1477/8–1510), painter of the Venetian school. His The Tempest (c. 1508), a milestone in Renaissance landscape painting
Giovanni da Udine (1487–1564), painter and architect. A pupil of Raphael and one of his assistants in painting the frescoes of the Vatican
Giovanni di Paolo (c. 1403 – 1482), painter. One of the most attractive and idiosyncratic painters of the Sienese School
Stefano di Giovanni (c. 1400 – 1450), painter of the Sienese school, is noted for the gentle piety of his art
Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497), painter. He is famous for his numerous frescos, such as The Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem (1459–1461) in the Medici Palace, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and scientist. The supreme example of
Renaissancegenius. Author of Mona Lisa (c. 1503 – 1506)
Gian Paolo Lomazzo (1538–1592), painter. His first work, Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura et architettura (1584) is in part a guide to contemporary concepts of
decorum
Masolino da Panicale (c. 1383 – c. 1447), 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. 1438 – 1494), painter of the Umbrian school. One of the great fresco artists of the 15th century
Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/1524–1578), painter. He was known for his sober and dignified portraits
Palma Giovane (1548/1550–1628), painter. The leading Venetian painter and draftsman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries
Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 1528), painter of the High Renaissance, noted for the craftsmanship of his religious and mythological works
Parmigianino (1503–1540), painter, one of the first artists to develop the elegant and sophisticated version of
Mannerist style
Perino del Vaga (1501–1547), 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 (1422–1457), painter of the Florentine school who excelled in the execution of small-scale paintings
Pinturicchio (1454–1513), painter, known for his highly decorative frescoes. His most elaborate project was the decoration of the
Cathedral of Siena
Pisanello (c. 1395 – 1455), medalist and painter. He is regarded as the foremost exponent of the
International Gothic style in Italian painting[126]
Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499 – 1543), painter. One of the most original and innovative artists of the mid-16th century[127]
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1429/1433–1498), painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and engraver, was a master of anatomical rendering and excelled in action subjects, notably
mythologies
Pontormo (1494–1557), painter. He is thought to have painted Vertumnus and Pomona (1520–1521), which shows qualities characteristic of mannerism
Il Pordenone (c. 1484 – 1539), painter chiefly known for his frescoes of religious subjects
Francesco Raibolini (c. 1450 – 1517), painter, goldsmith and medallist. His major surviving paintings are altarpieces, mostly images of the Virgin and saints
Giulio Romano (c. 1499 – 1546), 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 (1439–1507), 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[129]
Andrea Schiavone (c. 1510/15–1563), painter and etcher. His most characteristic works were fairly small religious or mythological pictures for private patrons
Luca Signorelli (c. 1445 – 1523), painter, known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. His masterpiece is the fresco cycle in
Orvieto Cathedral
Il Sodoma (1477–1549), painter, a master of the human figure and leading pupil of Leonardo da Vinci
Francesco Squarcione (c. 1395 – after 1468), painter who founded the Paduan school and is known for being the teacher of Andrea Mantegna and other noteworthy painters[130]
Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1362 – 1422), painter. He was the leading painter in
Siena in the first two decades of the 15th century and also worked in and for other cities[131]
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), painter and engraver from Florence who specialised in pastoral scenes
Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527–1596), painter, sculptor, and architect who spread the style of Italian Mannerist painting in Spain during the late 16th century[132]
Tintoretto (1518–1594), painter of the Venetian school. One of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. His works include St. George and the Dragon (1555)
Titian (c. 1488/1490–1576), painter of the
Venetian school, noted for his religious and mythological works, such as Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523), and his portraits
Cosimo Tura (c. 1430 – 1495), painter who was the founder and the first significant figure of the 15th-century school of Ferrara[133]
Paolo Uccello (1397–1475), painter. His three panels depicting The Battle of San Romano (1438), combine the decorative late Gothic style with the new heroic style of the early Renaissance
Bartolomeo Veneto (fl. 1502–1546), painter who worked in Northern Italy in an area bounded by Venice and Milan
Alvise Vivarini (1442/1453–1503–1505), painter in the late Gothic style whose father,
Antonio, was the founder of the influential Vivarini family of Venetian artists
Bartolomeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c. 1499), painter and member of the influential Vivarini family of Venetian artists
Jacopo Zabolino (active 1461–1494) painter of frescoes of a mainly religious theme
Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/1541–1609), painter and architect. He was the author of L'idea de' Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti (1607)
Taddeo Zuccari (1529–1566), painter. One of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school
Baroque and Rococo
Francesco Albani (1578–1660), painter, known for paintings of mythological and poetic subjects
Cristofano Allori (1577–1621), painter. He became one of the foremost Florentine artists of the early Baroque period, also winning renown as a courtier, poet, musician and lover[134]
Jacopo Amigoni (1682–1752), painter and etcher. His oeuvre includes decorative frescoes for churches and palaces, history and mythological paintings and a few etchings
Marcello Bacciarelli (1731–1818), painter working at the royal court in
Warsaw, who captured seminal moments in Polish history on canvas
Sisto Badalocchio (1585 – c. 1647), painter and engraver. His most important work are the frescoes in the cupola and pendentives of St.
John the Baptist (Reggio Emilia)[136]
Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663), painter. Particularly noteworthy are his altarpieces of the Virgin and Child with Three Carmelite Saints (c. 1631) and Christ with Saints Joseph and Eligius (1635)
Canaletto (1697–1768), 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 (1578–1635), painter. Caravaggesque painter and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism[137]
Caravaggio (1571–1610), painter of the
baroque whose influential works, such as The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603), are marked by intense realism and revolutionary use of light
Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757), portrait painter and miniaturist, Rococo style, known for her work in pastels[138]
Giuseppe Crespi (1665–1747), painter of the Bolognese school, known for the imposing paintings of the Seven Sacraments (1712)
Carlo Dolci (1616–1686),
Florentine painter, known for his paintings of the heads and half-figures of Jesus and the Mater Dolorosa
Domenichino (1581–1641), painter of the baroque eclectic school who is noted for his religious and mythological works, including several frescoes of
Saint Cecilia
Filippo Gagliardi (1606-1659), painter active mainly in Rome. helped in the renovation of San Martino ai Monti (1647–54). He was a member of the
Accademia di San Luca from at least 1638 and became principe in 1656–58. He was also a member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi del Pantheon.
Luca Giordano (1634–1705), painter, the most important Italian decorative artist of the second half of the 17th century
Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), painter, a follower of Canaletto. His many charming landscapes are in the galleries of London, Paris,
Venice and
Boston
Guercino (1591–1666), painter. Extremely skillful, prolific, and quick to finish his work, he was known for his frescoes, altarpieces, oils, and drawings
Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709), painter, a leading exponent of the baroque style. His masterpiece is the nave ceiling of the Church of
Sant'Ignazio in Rome
Mattia Preti (1613–1699), painter, called Il Calabrese for his birthplace. His most substantial undertaking was the decoration of
St. John's,
Valletta
Guido Reni (1575–1642), painter noted for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects
Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734), 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 (1615–1673), 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 (1657–1747), painter. The leading artist of the Neapolitan Baroque during the first half of the 18th century[141]
Massimo Stanzione (c. 1586 – c. 1656), painter. His style has a distinctive refinement and grace that has earned him the nickname "the Neapolitan
Guido Reni."[142]
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804), painter and printmaker. His most noted early works are the chinoiserie decorations of the Villa Valmarana in
Vicenza (1757)
The 1800s
Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868), painter of the macchiaioli group
Giovanni Segantini (1858–1899), painter known for his Alpine landscapes and allegorical pictures, which blended Symbolist content with the technique of Neo-Impressionism
The 1900s
Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), painter (and occasional sculptor), the only artist of his time to become internationally famous as a society and state
portraitist[145]
Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), painter, sculptor, stage designer, decorative artist and actor. He was one of the originators of
Futurism
Vincenzo Bianchini (1903–2000), painter, sculptor, writer, poet, doctor and philosopher
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), painter, sculptor and theorist. His painting The City Rises (1910) is a dynamic composition of swirling human figures in a fragmented crowd scene
Alberto Burri (1915–1995), 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
Francesco Clemente (born 1952), painter and draftsman whose dramatic figural imagery was a major component in the revitalization of Italian art beginning in the 1980s
Enzo Cucchi (born 1949), painter, draughtsman and sculptor. He was a key member of the Italian
Transavantgarde movement
Lazzaro Donati (1926–1977), painter. Born in Florence and attended the
Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence.
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), painter and sculptor whose portraits and nudes, characterized by asymmetrical compositions, are among the most important portraits of the 20th century[146]
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), painter and etcher. He is widely acknowledged as a major Italian painter of the 20th century
Giovanni Pelliccioli (born 1947), surrealist painter. In 1993 he created a new form in the world of the artistic painting – the "triangle"
Luigi Russolo (1885–1947), painter. One of the five signers of the basic 1910 "Manifesto of Futurist Painting" before switching his attention to music
Emilio Scanavino (1922–1986), painter and sculptor. One of the most important protagonists of the Spatialist movement in Italy[147]
Gino Severini (1883–1966), painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism
Mario Sironi (1885–1961), painter, sculptor, illustrator and designer. He was the leading artist of the
Novecento Italiano group in the 1920s, developing a muscular, monumental figurative style
Panfilo Castaldi (c. 1398 – c. 1490), physician and "master of the art of printing", to whom local tradition attributes the invention of
moveable type
Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice, 2nd Conte di Panzutti (1723–1789), printer, publisher and scientist. Settled in
Yverdon where he published a version of the Encyclopédie (1770–1780). Also known for his escapades across Europe with a married Countessa.
Francesco Franceschi (c. 1530 – c. 1599), printer. Known for the high quality of his engravings, which were done using metal plates rather than wooden
Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), printer, noted for his fine editions of the classics. Inventor of the
italic type (1501) and also the first to use the
semicolon
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480 – c. 1534), engraver, known for being the first important printmaker. He is therefore a key figure in the rise of the
reproductive print
Agatha of Sicily (fl. 3rd 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
Bernardine of Siena (1380–1444), preacher. He was a Franciscan of the Observant congregation and one of the most effective and most widely known
preachers of his day[150]
Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal and archbishop. He was one of the leaders of the Counter-Reformation
John Bosco (1815–1888), Catholic priest, pioneer in educating the poor and founder of the
Salesian Order
Mother Frances Cabrini (1850-1917), religious migrated in USA. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States.
Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), Dominican tertiary, mystic, and patron saint of Italy who played a major role in returning the papacy from
Avignon to Rome (1377)
Saint Cecilia (2nd 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
Paula Frassinetti (1809–1892), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Dorothy. Her feast day is June 11
Francis of Paola (1416–1507), mendicant friar. The founder of the
Minims, a religious order in the Catholic Church
Januarius (?–c. 305), Bishop and martyr, sometimes called Gennaro, long popular because of the liquefaction of his blood on his feast day
Lawrence of Brindisi (1559–1619), Capuchin friar. He was one of the leading polemicists of the Counter-Reformation in Germany
Saint Longinus (1st century AD), Roman soldier who pierced
Jesus's side with a
spear as he hung on the cross
Saint Lucy (283–304), Christian martyr. She is the patroness saint of the city of
Syracuse (Sicily)
Giuseppe Moscati (1880–1927), doctor, scientific researcher, and university professor noted both for his pioneering work in biochemistry and for his piety
Artémides Zatti (1880–1951), Salesian and noted pharmacist that emigrated to Argentina in 1897 where became well known for his ardent faith and commitment to the sick in Patagonia.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), linguist, mathematician and philosopher, considered to be the first woman in the Western world to have achieved a reputation in
mathematics[151]
Gjuro Baglivi (1668–1707), 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 (1924–1980), psychiatrist. He was the promoter of an important reform in the Italian
mental health system, the "
legge 180/78" (law number 180, year 1978)
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), naturalist, noted for his systematic and accurate observations of animals, plants and
minerals
Giuseppina Aliverti (1894–1982),
geophysicist remembered for developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water
Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), astronomer and microscopist. The inventor of the catadioptric microscope[152] (presented at the Arts and Industry Exhibition in Milan in 1812)
Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795), father of Italian
geology, who established bases for stratigraphic chronology by classifying the four main layers of the
Earth's crust[154]
Silvano Arieti (1914–1981), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst long recognized as a leading authority on
schizophrenia
Gaspare Aselli (c. 1581 – 1625), physician who contributed to the knowledge of the circulation of
body fluids by discovering the
lacteal vessels[155]
Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), chemist and physicist. The founder of the molecular theory now known as
Avogadro's law.
Fabio Badilini (born 1964), pioneer in noninvasive electrocardiography.
Gjuro Baglivi (1668–1707), 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 (1924–1980), psychiatrist. He was the promoter of an important reform in the Italian
mental health system, the "
legge 180/78" (law number 180, year 1978)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679), physiologist and physicist who was the first to explain muscular movement and other body functions according to the laws of statics and dynamics
Virginia Angiola Borrino (1880–1965), physician who was the first woman to serve as head of a University Pediatric Ward in Italy[158][159]
Tito Livio Burattini (1617–1681), mathematician, in his book Misura Universale, published in 1675, first suggested the name
meter as the name for a unit of length
Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010), physicist who reconciled these strange-particle decays with the universality of
weak interactions
Andrea Cavalleri (born 1969), physicist who specializes in optical science. Founder of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. Pprofessor at the University of Oxford. In 2018 was awarded with the
Frank Isakson Prize
Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), physician, philosopher and botanist, produced the first scientific classification of plants and animals by genera and species
Ernesto Cesàro (1859–1906), mathematician. In 1880 he developed methods of finding the sum of
divergent series. Cesàro made important contributions to intrinsic geometry
Leon Croizat (1894–1982), scholar and botanist who developed an orthogenetic synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he called
panbiogeography
Lea Del Bo Rossi (1903–1978), medical researcher who found a staining method based on a Coz-silver impregnation technique
Alessio Fasano, gastroenterologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School. Director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.
Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985), probabilist, statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of
probability
Annibale de Gasparis (1819–1892), astronomer, his first
asteroid discovery was
10 Hygiea in 1849. Between 1850 and 1865, he discovered eight more asteroids
Ennio De Giorgi (1928–1996), mathematician. He brilliantly resolved the
19th Hilbert problem. Today, this contribution is known as the De Giorgi-Nash Theorem
Mondino de Liuzzi (c. 1270 – 1326), physician and anatomist whose Anathomia corporis humani (MS. 1316; first printed in 1478) was the first modern work on
anatomy
Girolamo Segato (1792–1836), Egyptologist and anatomist, best known for his unique work in the
petrifaction of human cadavers.
Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012), virologist, known for his brilliant work with two viruses that can transform animal cells into a cancer-like state in the test tube
Amarro Fiamberti (10 September 1894 – 1970), psychiatrist who first performed a transorbital
lobotomy (by accessing the
frontal lobe of the
brain through the orbits) in 1937
Quirico Filopanti (1812–1894), mathematician and politician. In his book Miranda! (1858), he was the first to propose
universal time and worldwide standard time zones 21 years before
Sandford Fleming
Luca Ghini (1490–1556), physician and botanist, best known as the creator of the first recorded
herbarium and founder of the world's first botanical garden[163]
Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742), 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
Salvador Luria (1912–1991), microbiologist. He shared a 1969
Nobel Prize for investigating the mechanism of viral
infection in living cells
Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555–1617), astronomer, astrologer, cartographer and mathematician, known for his reduced size edition of
Ptolemy's Geographiae (1596)
Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), physician and biologist. He is regarded as the founder of microscopic anatomy and may be regarded as the first
histologist[166]
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937), physicist, credited as the inventor of radio, often called the father of wireless communication and technology (1896)[167]
Fulvio Melia (born 1956), writer and astrophysicist; author of Electrodynamics (2001), The Edge of Infinity. Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe (2003), and High-Energy Astrophysics (2009)
Macedonio Melloni (1798–1854), physicist, demonstrated that
radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light
Geminiano Montanari (1633–1687), astronomer. Today, it is better known for his discovery of the variability of the star
Algol (c. 1667)
Maria Montessori (1870–1952), physician and educator. The innovative educational method that bears her name (1907) is now spread in 22,000 schools in at least 110 countries worldwide[168]
Giulio Natta (1903–1979), chemist, famous for having discovered isotactic
polypropylene (1954) and
polymers (1957). He won a Nobel Prize in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on catalisys of high polymers.
Adelchi Negri (1876–1912), pathologist and microbiologist who identified what later became known as
Negri bodies (1903) in the brains of animals and humans infected with the
rabies virus
Luca Pacioli (1446/7–1517), 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 (1815–1891), physician and politician, considered one of the forerunners of the foundation of the
Red Cross
Franco Rasetti (1901–2001), physicist, paleontologist and botanist. Together with
Enrico Fermi, he discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral grounds
Francesco Redi (1626–1697), 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 (1676–1754), mathematician, known in connection with his problem, called Riccati's equation, published in the Acla eruditorum (1724)[172]
Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), missionary to China, mathematician, linguist and published the first Chinese edition of
Euclid's Elements
Paolo Ruffini (1765–1822), mathematician and physician who made studies of equations that anticipated the algebraic theory of
groups
Nazareno Strampelli (1866–1942), geneticist and agronomist, whose innovative scientific work in wheat breeding 30 years earlier than
Borlaug laid the foundations for the
Green Revolution[174]
Sanctorius (1561–1636), physiologist and physician. He laid the foundation for the study of
metabolism
Henry Salvatori (1901-1997), geophysicist founder of
Western Geophysical an international oil exploration company for the purpose of using reflection seismology to explore petroleum.
Vincenzo Tiberio (1869–1915), physician and researcher. He was one of many scientists to notice the antibacterial power of some types of mold before
Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin[176]
Laura Bassi (1711–1778), scientist who was the first woman to become a
physics professor at a European university
Trotula (11th–12th 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
Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), physician and naturalist who made numerous experiments in entomology and human organology, and combated the doctrine of
spontaneous generation
Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666–1723), professor of anatomy at Bologna. He described several anatomical features of the ear in his book, De aure humana tractatus (1704)
Costanzo Varolio (1543–1575), remembered for his studies on the anatomy of the
brain, and his description of the pons that bears his name
Francesco Zantedeschi (1797–1873), physicist who published papers (1829, 1830) on the production of
electric currents in closed circuits by the approach and withdrawal of a
magnet
Niccolò Zucchi (1586–1670), astronomer and physicist. May have been the first to observe belts on the planet Jupiter with a telescope (on 17 May 1630), also claimed to have explored the idea of a
reflecting telescope in 1616, predating
Galileo Galilei and
Giovanni Francesco Sagredo's discussions of the same idea a few years later.[178]
Agostino di Duccio (1418 – c. 1481), sculptor whose work is characterized by its linear decorativeness
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (c. 1447 – 1522), sculptor, architect and engineer; he took part in the sculpture of the great octagonal dome of
Milan Cathedral
Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511–1592), 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
Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 – 1300–1310), sculptor and architect; his sculptures have a strong sense of volume that shows the influence on him of antique Roman models
Bartolommeo Bandinelli (1493–1560), sculptor and painter; his most famous and conspicuous sculpture is Hercules and Cacus (1527–34), a pendant to Michelangelo's David
Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), goldsmith, medallist, sculptor and writer. He was one of the foremost Italian Mannerist artists of the 16th century[180]
Desiderio da Settignano (c. 1430 – 1464), sculptor; his delicate, sensitive, original technique was best expressed in portrait busts of women and children
Donatello (c. 1386 – 1466), sculptor, pioneer of the
Renaissance style of natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David (c. 1440)
Jacopo della Quercia (c. 1374 – 1438), sculptor; he is especially noted for his imposing allegorical figures for the Gaia Fountain in Siena
Cesare Lapini (1848 – after 1890), sculptor; noted for both small marbles and larger work
Francesco Laurana (c. 1430 – 1502), sculptor; known for his portrait busts of women, characterized by serene, detached dignity and aristocratic elegance[181]
Leone Leoni (1509–1590), 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[182]
Tullio Lombardo (1460–1532), 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. 1576 – 1636), sculptor. He was one of the leading sculptors in Rome during the papacy of
Paul V (1605–1621)[183]
Giacomo Manzù (1908–1991), sculptor; known for his relief sculptures, which give contemporary dimensions to Christian themes
Marino Marini (1901–1980), sculptor; known for his many vigorous sculptures of horses and horsemen (e.g., Horse and Rider, 1952–53)
Arturo Martini (1889–1947), sculptor who was active between the World Wars. He is known for figurative sculptures executed in a wide variety of styles and materials
Nicola Pisano (1220/1225–1284), sometimes considered to be the founder of modern
sculpture
Arnaldo Pomodoro (born 1926), sculptor; one of the most famous contemporary artists
Egidio Pozzi (19th to 20th Century), sculptor of portraits, monuments, statues
Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915), sculptor based in Florence who was represented at international world's fairs
Luca della Robbia (1399/1400–1482), sculptor, the most famous member of a family of artists. Two of his famous works are The Nativity (c. 1460) and Madonna and Child (c. 1475)
Bernardo Rossellino (1409–1464), sculptor and architect. He was among the most distinguished Florentine marble sculptors in the second half of the 15th century
Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720–1793), sculptor; his masterpiece in this genre is the four Virtues of Charles of Bourbon (1763–4)
Andrea Sansovino (c. 1467 – 1529), sculptor; his statues and reliefs for church decoration, such as the Virgin and Child with St. Anne (1512) at San Agostino, were greatly admired
Adamo Tadolini (1788–1863), sculptor of the Neoclassic style
Pietro Tenerani (1789–1869), sculptor of the Neoclassic style
Vecchietta (1410–1480), painter, sculptor, goldsmith, architect and military engineer. One of the most influential artists of the early Renaissance
Alessandro Vittoria (1525–1608), sculptor. He was celebrated for his portrait busts and decorative work, much of which was created for the restoration of the
Doge's Palace
Vittorio Santoro (born 1962), Italian/Swiss artist working in sculptures, installations, audio works, works on paper, real-time activities and artist books.
Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), automobile racing driver; world champion driver in 1952 and 1953
Charles Atlas (1892–1972), bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a bodybuilding method
Walter Avarelli (1912–1987), bridge player, a member of the famous
Blue Team, with whom he won nine Bermuda Bowls and three World Team Olympiads from 1956 to 1972.
Jacques Balmat (1762–1834), 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 (1786)
Nino Bibbia (1922–2013), one of
skeleton's great, Italy's first Winter Olympic gold medalist. In his illustrious career, he earned 231 golds, 97 silvers, and 84 bronzes; The World's most prestigious race is named after him
Scipione Borghese (1871–1927), aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver winner of the
Peking to Paris race in 1907
Tony Cairoli (born 1985), eight-time Grand Prix
motocross world champion; record of 144 races wins and 72 Grand Prix wins make him the second most successful in motocross history
Primo Carnera (1906–1967), heavyweight boxing champion of the world
Jury Chechi (born 1969), gymnast, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings"; first athlete in the sport to win five consecutive world championships gold medals in the same event
Klaus Dibiasi (born 1947), diver, the only Olympic diver to have won three successive gold medals and the only one to win medals at four Summer Olympics.
Josefa Idem (born 1964), one of sprint canoeing's legends, winner of 38 international medals among
Olympic Games, World and European Championships; Her eight
Olympic appearances is a female record
Eugenio Monti (1928–2003), bobsledder, most successful athlete in the history of bobsled with 9 World championship gold medals and 6 Olympic medals, and first ever to receive the
Pierre de Coubertin medal
Sandro Munari (born in 1940), race car driver strongly associated with rally icon
Lancia Stratos HF won a further Monte Carlo Rally hat-trick in the 1970s, among a total of seven World Rally Championship victories.
Gianmarco Pozzecco (born 1972), basketball player, an all-around offensive talent; won, for seven years, the ranking for the top assist men in the Italian League
Valentina Vezzali (born 1974), 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
Christian Vieri (born 1973), footballer; one of the finest strikers in Europe
Armin Zöggeler (born 1974), luger; nicknamed Il Cannibale; first Olympian ever, summer or winter, to win six consecutive medals in the same individual event; also holds a record of 10 World Cup titles and 57 victories
Gianfranco Zola (born 1966), footballer; voted Chelsea's best player in the centenary celebrations of 2005
Cassiodorus (490 – c. 585), historian, statesman, and monk who helped to save the
culture of Rome at a time of impending barbarism[186]
Catullus (c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC), Roman poet whose expressions of love and hatred are generally considered the finest lyric poetry of
ancient Rome[187]
Ennius (239 BC–169 BC), epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early Latin poets, rightly called the founder of Roman literature[188]
Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40–103), Roman administrator and writer. His most famous work De aquaeductu, in two books written after he was appointed curator of the Roman water-supply (97)
Aulus Gellius (c. 125–after 180), Latin author and grammarian remembered for his miscellany Attic Nights, in which many fragments of lost works are preserved
Horace (65 BC–8 BC), Roman poet, outstanding Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor
Augustus
Juvenal (55/60–127), most powerful of all Roman satiric poets[190]
Livy (59/64 BC–AD 17), one of the great Roman historians[191]
Gnaeus Naevius (c. 270 BC–c. 200 BC), second of a triad of early Latin epic poets and dramatists, between Livius Andronicus and Ennius[193]
Cornelius Nepos (c. 100 BC–c. 25 BC), Roman biographer. His only extant work is a collection of biographies, mostly from a lost larger work, De Viris Illustribus (on illustrious men)
Persius (34–62), 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 (1692)[195]
Petronius (d. 66 AD), reputed author of the Satyricon, a literary portrait of Roman society of the 1st century AD[196]
Plautus (c. 254 BC–184 BC), Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the
Latin language
Sallust (86 BC–35/34 BC), Roman historian and one of the great Latin literary stylists[199]
Silius Italicus (c. 26–102), Roman poet and politician. He was the author of the longest surviving Latin poem, Punica, an epic in 17 books on the
Second Punic War (218–202 BC)[200]
Statius (c. 45–c. 96), one of the principal Roman epic and lyric poets of the Silver Age of
Latin literature (18–133)
Suetonius (69–after 122), Roman biographer and antiquarian whose writings include De viris illustribus and De vita Caesarum[201]
Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BC–c. AD 31), Roman historian. Author of a short history of Rome which he wrote to commemorate the consulship of his friend Marcus Vinicius (AD 30)
Virgil (70 BC–19 BC), Roman poet, known for his national epic, the Aeneid
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 1274), philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition; his most influential work is the Summa Theologica (1265–1274) which consists of three parts[204]
Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1255 – 1300), poet, a major figure among the Florentine poets
Gioacchino da Fiore (1130–1202), theologian, mystic and esotericist. His thoughts inspired many philosophical movements as the
Joachimites and the
Florians
Dino Compagni (c. 1255 – 1324), historical writer and political figure
Pietro d'Abano (1257–1315), physician, philosopher, and astrologer
Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342), political philosopher, whose work Defensor pacis ("Defender of the Peace"), one of the most revolutionary of medieval documents
Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), writer and satirist; known for his literary attacks on his wealthy and powerful contemporaries and for six volumes of letters
Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), cardinal who wrote one of the earliest
Italian grammars and assisted in establishing the Italian literary language[211]
Francesco Berni (1497/98–1535), poet; important for the distinctive style of his Italian
burlesque, which was called bernesco and imitated by many poets[212]
Luigi Da Porto (1485–1530), 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. 1370 – 1444), a leading historian of his time. He wrote History of the Florentine People (1414–15); is generally considered the first modern work of history
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), philosopher; his major metaphysical works, De la causa, principio, et Uno (1584) and De l'infinito universo et Mondi (1584), were published in France
Giulio Camillo (c. 1480 – 1544), philosopher; known for his theatre, described in his posthumously published work L’Idea del Theatro
Tommaso Campanella(1568 – 1639), Dominican friar, philosopher and poet. His most significant work was The City of the Sun, a utopia describing an egalitarian theocratic society where property is held in common
Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631), Aristotelian philosopher at Padua University
Mario Equicola (c. 1470 – 1525), writer; author of Libro de natura de amore (1525) and Istituzioni del comporre in ogni sorta di rima della lingua volgare (1541)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), philosopher; his chief work was Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae (1482), in which he combined Christian theology and Neoplatonic elements
Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), writer; author of pieces in prose, published under the title Convivia Mediolanensia, and a great many
Latin translations from the
Greek
Veronica Franco (1546–1591), poet and high-ranking courtesan; famous in her day for her intellectual and artistic accomplishments
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian; author of the most important contemporary History of Italy (1537–1540); the masterwork of Italian historical literature of the
Renaissance
Cristoforo Landino (1424–1498), writer; he wrote three works framed as philosophical dialogues: De anima (1453), De vera nobilitate (1469), and the Disputationes Camaldulenses (c. 1474)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), political philosopher and writer; known for his The Prince (written in 1513 and published in 1532); one of the world's most famous essays on
political science
Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), politician and diplomat; significant scholar of the early Italian Renaissance
Girolamo Mei (1519–1594), writer; his treatise De modis musicis antiquorum (a study of ancient Greek music) greatly influenced the ideas of the
Florentine Camerata
Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607), mathematician, philosopher and astronomer; known for his work Mechanicorum Liber (1577)
Gianfrancesco Straparola (1480–1557), writer, whose collection of 75 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. 1473 – 1538 or 1545), philosopher and commentator; his principal works are: De intellectu et daemonibus (1492) and De immortalitate animi (1518–1524)
Marius Nizolius (1498–1576), philosopher and scholar; his major work was the Thesaurus Ciceronianus, published in 1535
Franciscus Patricius (1529–1597), philosopher and scientist. His two great works: Discussionum peripateticorum libri XV (1571) and Nova de universis philosophia (1591)
Petrarch (1304–1374), scholar and poet; his Il Canzoniere had enormous influence on the poets of the 15th and 16th centuries
Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579), philosopher; his works include Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne, o Raffaella (1539) and the comedies Amor costante (1536) and Alessandro (1544)
Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481), writer and gastronomist. Author of Lives of the Popes (1479); the first systematic handbook of papal history and On honourable pleasure and health (1465); the world's first printed cookbook
Poliziano (1454–1494), poet and philologist; among his works: Stanze per la giostra (incomplete) and Orfeo (1475)
Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1525), philosopher; his principal work is On the Immortality of the Soul (1516)
Simone Porzio (1496–1554), philosopher. His principal works are: An homo bonus, vel malus volens fiat (1551) and De mente humana (1551)
Francesco Pucci (1543–1597), philosopher; author of Forma d'una repubblica cattolica (1581)
Luigi Pulci (1432–1484), poet; he ridiculed the heroic poems of his time in his mock epic Morgante (1478, 1483)
Sperone Speroni (1500–1588), 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
Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588), philosopher; his chief work was De rerum natura iuxta propria principia (1565), marked the period of transition from Aristotelianism to modern thought
Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550), literary theorist, philologist, dramatist, and poet, an important innovator in Italian drama[219]
Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457), rhetorician, and educator who attacked medieval traditions and anticipated views of the Protestant reformers
Lucilio Vanini (1585–1619), philosopher; author of Amphitheatrum Aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum (1615) and De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis (1616)
Benedetto Varchi (1502/1503–1565), poet and historian; known for his work Storia fiorentina (16 vol.), published only in 1721
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), writer, architect and painter, known for his entertaining
biographies of artists, Le Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550)[220]
Giovanni della Casa (1503–1556), poet, writer and diplomat. His
Il Galateo (1558), the most celebrated etiquette book in European history, set the foundation for modern etiquette, polite behavior and manners literature[221]
The Baroque period and the Enlightenment
Claudio Achillini (1574–1640), poet and jurist; one of the better known Marinisti
Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803), tragic poet; from 1775 to 1787, wrote 19 verse
tragedies; his works include Filippo (1775), Oreste (1786) and Mirra (1786)
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), philosopher and mathematician; first woman to write a mathematics handbook and first woman as mathematics professor in a university[223]
Melchiorre Cesarotti (1730–1808), poet and translator; author of Essay on the Philosophy of Taste (1785) and Essay on the Philosophy of Languages (1785)
Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), philosopher, first woman to graduate from a university with a doctorate
Carlo Denina (1731–1813), historian; author of Delle rivoluzioni d'Italia (1769–70) and Delle revoluzioni della Germania (1804)
Antonio Genovesi (1712–1769), writer and political; author of Disciplinarum Metaphysicarum Elementa (1743–52) and Logica (1745)
Pietro Giannone (1676–1748), historian and jurist; his most important work was his Il Triregno, ossia del regno del cielo, della terra, e del papa; published only in 1895
Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793), playwright; wrote more than 260 dramatic works of all sorts, including
opera
Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1786), poet, critic and journalist. His principal writings are: Lettere famigliari (1755), Il Mondo morale (1760) and Osservatore Veneto periodico (1761)
Scipione Maffei (1675–1755), writer and art critic; his most important works: Conclusioni di amore (1702), La scienza cavalleresca (1710) and De fabula equestris ordinis Constantiniani (1712)
Giambattista Marino (1569–1625), poet. Founder of the school of
Marinism (later Secentismo); among his principal works is L'Adone (1623), a long narrative poem
Metastasio (1698–1782), poet and librettist; considered the most important writer of
opera seria libretti. His melodrama Attilio Regolo (1750) is generally considered his masterpiece
Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), historian; author of Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi (6 vols; 1738–42) and Annali d'Italia (12 vols; 1744–49)
Ferrante Pallavicino (1615–1644) satirist and novelist; his most important works: Baccinata ouero battarella per le api barberine (1642) and La Retorica delle puttane (1643)
Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799), prose writer and poet; author of Dialogo sopra la nobiltà (1757) and Il giorno (4 books, 1763–1801)
Cesare Ripa (c. 1560 – c. 1622), aesthetician and writer; author of the Iconologia overo Descrittione Dell’imagini Universali cavate dall’Antichità et da altri luoghi (1593), an influential
emblem book
Paolo Vergani (1753–1820), economist of the Papal States
Alessandro Verri (1741–1816), novelist and reformer; author of Le avventure di Saffo poetessa di Mitilene (1782), Notti romane al sepolcro degli Scipioni (1792–1804) and La vita di Erostrato (1815)
Pietro Verri (1728–1797), political economist and writer; his chief works are: Riflessioni sulle leggi vincolanti (1769) and Meditazioni sull' economia politica (1771)
Giambattista Vico (1668–1744), philosopher and historian; his major theories were developed in his Scienza nuova (1725)
The 1800s
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (1791–1863), poet; he described the vast panorama of Roman society in colorful dialect
Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851), patriot and poet; he wrote stirring patriotic ballads of a romantic type and rhymed romances, such as Giulia and Matilde
Luigi Capuana (1839–1915), critic and novelist; among his best works are the short stories in Paesane (1894) and the novel Il marchese di Roccaverdina (1901)
Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907), poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906, and one of the most influential literary figures of his age[226]
Carlo Collodi (1826–1890), author and journalist, best known as the creator of the canonical piece of children's literature and world's most translated non-religious book The Adventures of Pinocchio[227]
Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938), poet, military hero and political leader; author of Il piacere (1889), L'innocente (1892), Giovanni Episcopo (1892) and Il trionfo della morte (1894)[228]
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911), novelist and poet; his famous Piccolo mondo antico (1896), it is considered one of the great Italian novels of the 19th century
Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827), poet and patriot; his popular novel The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1802) bitterly denounced
Napoleon's cession of Venetia to Austria[231]
Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852), philosopher and political writer; his most celebrated work is Del primato morale e civile degli italiani (1843)[232]
Giuseppe Giusti (1809–1850), satirical poet; known for his poem, Sant’Ambrogio (c. 1846)
Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852), archaeologist, epigrapher, poet; authored the first Oscan/Latin dictionary
Ippolito Nievo (1831–1861), writer and patriot; known for his novel Confessioni di un Italiano, also known as Confessioni d'un ottuagenario which was published posthumously in 1867
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912), poet; his works include Carmina (in
Latin, 1914), the more mystical Myricae (1891) and the patriotic Odi e inni (1906)
Silvio Pellico (1789–1854), dramatic poet; his principal works are Francesca da Rimini (1818) and Le mie prigioni (1832)
Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797–1855), religious philosopher; he is known for his work, Nuovo saggio sull’origine delle idee, published in 1830
Emilio Salgari (1862–1911), adventure novelist for the young; creator of popular heroic figure
Sandokan
Niccolò Tommaseo (1802–1874), poet and critic; editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other works
Dino Campana (1885–1932), poet, author of Canti Orfici.
Carlo Cassola (1917–1987), neorealist novelist; known for his novel, Bébo's Girl, published in 1960
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historian, humanist, and foremost Italian philosopher of the first half of the 20th century[234]
Erri De Luca (born 1950), poet and writer; author of Aceto, arcobaleno (1992), Tre cavalli (2000) and Montedidio (2002)
Victoria de Stefano (1940–2023), novelist migrated in Venezuela, essayist, philosopher and educator.
Grazia Deledda (1871–1936), novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1926; her best-known works are Elias Portolu (1903), Cenere (1904), and La madre (1920)[235]
Primo Levi (1919–1987), writer and chemist; his first memoir, If This Is a Man has been described as one of the most important works of the 20th century[239]
Claudio Magris (born 1939), writer; author of Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Danubio (1986), Stadelmann (1988), Un altro mare (1991) and Microcosmi (1997)
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981), poet whose works, which greatly influenced 20th-century Italian literature, include Le Occasioni (1939) and Satura (1962). He won the 1975 Nobel Prize for literature
Indro Montanelli (1909–2001), journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of Rome (1957) and History of the Greeks (1959)
Elsa Morante (1912–1985), novelist and poet; her most acclaimed work, History, published in 1974
Aldo Palazzeschi (1885–1974), novelist and poet; known for his novel Il codice di Perelà published in 1911
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), poet, novelist and translator; his major works include Il Compagno (1947), Tra Donne Sole (1948) and The Moon and the Bonfires (1949)
Vasco Pratolini (1913–1991), writer and novelist; his most important literary works are the novels Family Diary (1947), Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1947) and Metello (1955)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968), poet; his works include La terra impareggiabile (1958) and Dare e avere (1966). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959[240]
Mario Rigoni Stern (1921–2008), his major works include Il sergente nella neve (1953), Storia di Tönle (1978) and Le stagioni di Giacomo (1995)
Federigo Tozzi (1883–1920), writer; known for his novel Con gli occhi chiusi published in 1919
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), poet, founder of the Hermetic movement that brought about a reorientation in modern Italian poetry[243]
Elio Vittorini (1908–1966), novelist; his works, among them The Twilight of the Elephant (1947) and The Red Carnation (1948), make a serious attempt to assess the
Fascist experience[244]
Other notables
Giovanni Agnelli (1866–1945), entrepreneur. Founder of the
Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) automobile company
Domenico Agusta (1907–1971), entrepreneur. CEO of the Agusta aeronautical company following the death of his father in 1927, and founded the
MV Agusta motorcycle company in 1945
Edoardo Bianchi (1865–1946), entrepreneur and inventor who founded the bicycle manufacturing company Bianchi in 1885 and the Italian automobile manufacturer
Autobianchi
Marcel Bich (1914–1994), entrepreneur, co-founder of the worldwide famous company
Bic. He created what would become the most popular and best selling pen in the World,
Bic Cristal
Bartolomeo Beretta (c. 1490 – c. 1565). known as maestro di canne (master gun-barrel maker), was ann artisan who, by 1526, had established the arms manufacturing enterprise
Beretta.
Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), automobile designer and manufacturer. Founder of the manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is now France
Gaspare Campari (1828–1882), drinks manufacturer. In 1860 he formulated the bitter
Campari. His recipe, which Campari keeps confidential, contained more than 60 natural ingredients
Pierre Cardin (1922–1920), fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs
Roberto Cavalli (born 1940), fashion designer and inventor. He is known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans.
Nino Cerruti (1930-2022), businessman and stylist. He founded his own haute couture house,
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (born 1947), businessman, former Chairman of Ferrari, and formerly Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and President of Confindustria
Francesco Cirio (1836–1900), businessman, is credited with being one of the first in the world with developing the appertization technique in Italy
Pompeo D'Ambrosio (1917–1998), entrepreneur as financial manager of
Banco Latino for the promotion of many successful Italian entrepreneurs in Venezuela.He was even co founder for Deportivo Italia, the soccer club of the Italian community in Venezuela
Giuseppe De'Longhi (born 1939), businessman and the president of De'Longhi Group
Torcuato di Tella (1892–1948), industrialist and philanthropist migrated in Argentine
Pietro D'Onofrio (1859–1937), founder of a Peruvian brand and business dedicated primarily to the sale of confectionery products
Salvatore Falabella founder of multinational chain of department stores owned by Chilean multinational company SARA
Falabella. It is the largest South American department store
Gaetano Filangieri (1752–1788), economist and state adviser; he is known for his work, The Science of Legislation (vols. 1–7; 1780–85)
Vincenzo Florio (1883–1959), entrepreneur, heir of the rich Florio dynasty. An automobile enthusiast he is best known as the founder of the
Targa Florio car racing.
Ferdinando Galiani (1728–1787), economist; he published two treatises, Della Moneta (1750) and Dialogues sur le commerce des blés (1770)
Domenico Dolce (born 1958), fashion designer and entrepreneur and co-founder of the
Dolce & Gabbana luxury fashion house
Emilio Pucci, Marquees di Barsento (1914–1992), fashion designer and politician
Pietro Ferrero (1898–1949), founder of Ferrero SpA, a confectionery and chocolatier company. His company invented
Nutella, a hazelnut-cream spread, which is now sold in over 160 countries
Micol Fontana (1913–2015), stylist and entrepreneur. Along with her two sisters Micol Fontana was stylist and co-founder of the Sorelle Fontana fashion house
Nazareno Fonticoli, fashion designer creator of the Brioni Roman Style, the state-of-the-art factory introduced the concept of Prêt Couture, or ready-to-wear Haute Couture that sealed the international rise of the Brioni brand.
Giovanni Achille Gaggia (1895-1961), inventor of the first modern steamless coffee machine on September 5, 1938, to be used commercially in his coffee bar.
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795), charlatan, magician, and adventurer who enjoyed enormous success in Parisian high society in the years preceding the
French Revolution
Ambrogio Calepino (c. 1440 – 1510), one of the earliest Italian lexicographers, from whose name came the once-common Italian word calepino and English word calepin, for "
dictionary"
Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992), magistrate who was specialised in prosecuting Cosa Nostra criminals. His life story is quite similar to that of his closest friend
Paolo Borsellino
Rosina Ferrario (1888–1957), first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence in January 1913
Andrea Fogli, product designer and interior designer
Riccardo Gualino (1879–1964), business magnate and art collector. He was also a patron of business empire based on forest concessions, cargo ships, banking, manufacture of rayon, confectionery, chemicals, artificial leather and film producer.
Domenico Ghirardelli (1817–1894), chocolatier who was the founder of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco, California.
Jose Greco (1918–2000), dancer and choreographer. Popularized Spanish dance in the 1950s and '60s sometimes earning him the title "the world's greatest non-Spanish Spanish dancer".[247] The Spanish government knighted him in 1962[248]
Ugolino della Gherardesca (c. 1220 – 1289), nobleman, whose death by starvation with his sons and grandsons is described by Dante in the Inferno (Canto XXXIII)
Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916–1993), automobile designer, inventor, engineer, winemaker, industrialist and businessman who created In 1963, *
Automobili Lamborghini, maker of high-end sports cars
Luigi Lavazza (1859–1949), businessman. In 1895, he founded the Lavazza coffee company in Turin
Lokanātha (1897–1966), was known as Salvatore Cioffi before ordination, a prominent Italian Buddhist monk and missionary
Alessandro Martini (1812–1905), businessman, founder of one of the most important
vermouth companies in the world,
Martini & Rossi, which produces the Martini vermouth.
Vittorio Missoni (1954–2013),
CEO of
Missoni, the
fashion house founded by his parents in 1953. He is credited with expanding Missoni into a global
brand after his parents handed control to him and his two siblings, Angela and Luca, in 1996
Arnoldo Mondadori (1889-1971), entrepreneur who in 1907 founded the biggest publishing company in Italy.
Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), priest, central figure in a controversy that arose when at the age of 6 he was forcibly taken from his Jewish parents because a domestic servant had baptized him
Primo Nebiolo (1923–1999), sports official, best known as president of the worldwide athletics federation IAAF from 1981 to his die in 1999. He was the ideator of the IAAF Continental Cup
Nina Ricci (1883–1970), fashion designer. She and her son Robert founded the fashion house
Nina Ricci in Paris in 1932. It has been owned by the Spanish company Puig since 1998
Sacco and Vanzetti case (1888–1927, 1891–1927), controversial murder trial in
Massachusetts, United States, extending over seven years, 1920–27, and resulting in the execution of the defendants
Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Christian preacher, reformer, and martyr, renowned for his clash with tyrannical rulers and a corrupt clergy
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973), fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent European figures in fashion between the two World Wars
Calisto Tanzi (1938–2022), businessman and convicted fraudster. He founded
Parmalat in 1961, after dropping out of college
Michele Taddei, leather craftsman co-founder of
Botega Veneta a luxury fashion house. Its product lines include ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, accessories, and jewelry; and it licenses its name and branding to Coty, Inc. for fragrances
Emilia Telese (born 1973), audio and visual performing artist
Augusto Odone (1933–2013, 1939–2000, 1978–2008), noted for the creation of
Lorenzo's oil as a treatment to
Adrenoleukodystrophy after his son, Lorenzo, was diagnosed with the rare and deadly disease.
Miuccia Prada (born 1949), fashion designer and businesswoman
Andrea Rossi (born 1950); entrepreneur known for Petroldragon, Energy Catalyzer who claims to have invented a cold fusion device.
Sergio Rossi (1935–2020), shoe designer, who founded his own reknowed world brand
Emilio Schuberth (1904–1972), fashion designer, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Schuberth was called the "tailor of the stars"
Filippo Sindoni (1936–2007), businessman migrated in Venezuela, his activities spiked in food and media branches
Valentino (born 1932), fashion designer, the founder of the
Valentino brand and company.
Donatella Versace (born 1955), fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. In 1997, she inherited a portion of the
Versace brand and became its creative director. She is currently the brand's chief creative officer. Along with her brother Gianni, she is widely credited for the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s by casting editorial models on the runway
Gianni Versace (1946–1997), fashion designer, socialite and businessman.
Bruno Vespa (born 1944), journalist. A former director of the Rai Uno's news program
TG1, founding host of the talk show Porta a Porta (English:"Door to door"), which has been broadcast without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.
Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta, Italian Renaissance noblewoman from Genoa
Giovanni Battista Vicini (1847-1900), entrepreneur migrated in Santo Domingo founder of business family. According to Forbes Magazine, the Vicini as a whole are the wealthiest family in the Dominican Republic.
Antonio Luigi Zanussi (1890–1946), entrepreneur, founder of electrodomestic Zanuzzi Group
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