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Architecture
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472)
Giacomo Barozzi [da Vignola] (1507-1573)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554)
Marcus Vitruvius [Pollio] (First Century)
Artists/Painters/Sculptors
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Caravaggio (1573-1610)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Surrealist painter who influenced Salvador
Dalí.
Della Robbia family
Giotto (1267-1337)
Michelangelo [Buonarroti] (1475-1564)
Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio] (1483-1520)
Astronomy/Aviation
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Education
Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591)
Schools of Reggio Emilia
Explorers
Cristoforo Colombo [Christopher Columbus] (1451-1506)
Antonio Pigafetta (1491-1534) Paid passage to travel with Magellan and was one of the few who returned (Magellan was killed
in the Philippines). Kept a detailed account of the circumnavigation, which was used for later journeys.
Marco Polo (1254-1324)
Film/Directors/Actors
Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
Finance/Business
De Medici family
Bartolomeo Beretta (1490-c.1565)
Humanitarians
Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591)
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Literature/Writers
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Medicine
Angelo Celli (1857-1914)
Giovanni Battista Grassi (1854–1925)
Ettore Marchiafava (1847-1935)
Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577)
Music/Composers/Conductors/Singers
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) Invented the piano.
Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838) Librettist for three of Mozart’s most popular operas – Le Nozze
di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790).
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007)
Jacopo Peri (1561-1633)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Politics/Law
Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) Wrote Crime and Punishment, which offered
a humane approach to laws and justice, and inspired many countries to reform their criminal justice systems.
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Religion
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
St. Thomas Aquinas (c.1224-1274)
Science/Math
Ulisse Aldrovandi 1522-1605)
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Leonardo da Pisa [Fibonacci] (1170-1250) Introduced the decimal system and its advantages over the Roman numeral system
to Western Europe.
Luigi Galvani (1737-1798)
Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia (1736-1813)
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) Invented the barometer.
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Invented the first battery.
Sports
Aldo Nadi (1899-1965) Considered one of the greatest fencers of all
time.
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940) Most versatile fencer. Won five gold medals
for fencing in the 1920 Olympic Games.
Italo Santelli (1866-1945)
Technology/Inventors
Panfilo Castaldi (1398–1490) Said to have invented movable type
before Gutenberg.
Gian Paolo Feminis (16??-c.1732) Developed a perfumed water that was the origin of eau de Cologne.
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
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