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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.

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Acting

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Architects

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Main article: List of Italian architects

Ancient Rome

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See also: Category:Ancient Roman architects

Middle Ages

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See also: Category:Italian architects

Renaissance

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Baroque

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Neoclassicism

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The 1900s

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Chefs and gastronomists

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Main article: List of Italian chefs
  • 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.
  • Ettore Boiardi
  • Caesar Cardini, creator of the Caesar salad.
  • 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.
  • Giada De Laurentiis – host of the Food Network program Everyday Italian
  • 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.
  • Luisa Marelli Valazza (born 1950), three-star Michelin chef.

Craftsmen

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Engineers and inventors

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See also: Category:Italian engineers

Explorers

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Main article: List of Italian explorers

Fictional characters

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See also: Category:Fictional Italian people

Filmmakers

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Main article: List of film directors from Italy

Illustrators

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See also: Category:Italian illustrators

Military and political figures

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Etruscan civilization

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See also: Category:Etruscan kings

Ancient Rome

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  • 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.
Main articles: List of Roman Emperors, List of Roman dictators, List of Roman generals, and List of Roman consuls

Roman Catholic Church

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Main article: List of popes
See also: Category:Cardinals (Catholic Church), Category:Roman Catholic bishops, and Category:Italian popes

Renaissance

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Main article: House of Medici
Main article: List of condottieri

Early Modern period to Unification

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See also: History of early modern Italy

1861 to the rise of Fascism

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Main article: Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)
See also: Category:Italian military personnel of World War I, Category:Italian military personnel of World War II, and Category:Italian fascists

Italian Republic

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See also: List of Presidents of the Italian Republic, List of Prime Ministers of Italy, and Template:Lists of Italian politicians by party

Musicians

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Composers

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Main article: List of Italian composers

Middle Ages

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Renaissance

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Baroque

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Classical period

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Romantic

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The 1900s

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Conductors

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See also: Category:Italian conductors (music)
  • Claudio Abbado (1933–2014), conductor. Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1979–88); director of the Vienna State Opera (1986–91), and the Berlin Philharmonic (1989–2001)
  • 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
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni (1909–1996), conductor of opera
  • Carlo Maria Giulini (1914–2005), conductor esteemed for his skills in directing both grand opera and symphony orchestras
  • Vittorio Gui (1885–1975), conductor, composer, musicologist and critic
  • Fabio Luisi (born 1959), conductor of the Vienna Symphony and the Staatskapelle Dresden
  • Gianandrea Noseda (born 1964), conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C.
  • 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
  • Tullio Serafin (1878–1968), conductor. An outstanding conductor of Italian opera, he did much to foster the revival of interest in Bellini and Donizetti
  • Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946–2001), performed with an intensity and daring that made him one of Europe's most controversial orchestra leaders
  • Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957), conductor, considered one of the great virtuoso conductors of the first half of the 20th century[95]
  • Carlo Zecchi (1903–1984), conductor, pianist and music teacher

Singers

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See also: Category:Italian singers, Category:Italian songwriters, and Category:Italian rappers

Castrati singers

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See also: Castrato
  • 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
  • Girolamo Crescentini (1762–1846), mezzo-soprano castrato. His repertory being chiefly operas by Zingarelli, Cimarosa and Gazzaniga
  • Farinelli (1705–1782), both soprano and contralto
  • 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
  • Giovanni Francesco Grossi (1653–1697), soprano castrato. He sang Siface in Cavalli's Scipione affricano (1671) and was thereafter always known by that name
  • Gaetano Guadagni (1728–1792), contralto castrato, known for singing the role of Orpheus at the premiere of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762
  • 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

Sopranos

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See also: Category:Italian sopranos
  • Gemma Bellincioni (1864–1950), opera singer, soprano
  • 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
  • Adalgisa Gabbi (1857–1933), operatic soprano
  • Cecilia Gasdia (born 1960), operatic soprano.
  • Amelita Galli-Curci (1882–1963), coloratura soprano
  • Giulia Grisi (1811–1869), operatic soprano whose brilliant dramatic voice established her as an operatic prima donna for more than 30 years[99]
  • Fausta Labia (1870–1935), operatic soprano
  • 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

Mezzo-sopranos

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  • Cecilia Bartoli (born 1966), operatic mezzo-soprano who achieved global stardom with her outstanding vocal skills
  • Faustina Bordoni (1697–1781), mezzo-soprano; known for her beauty and acting as well as her vocal range and breath control
  • Fiorenza Cossotto (born 1935), mezzo-soprano; she is considered by many to be one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century
  • Armida Parsi-Pettinella (1868–1949), successful at the Scala, especially as Dalila
  • Giulietta Simionato (1910–2010), mezzo-soprano who excelled at bel canto and lighter operas by Rossini and Mozart
  • 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

Contraltos

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See also: Category:Italian contraltos

Tenors

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See also: Category:Italian tenors

Baritones

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See also: Category:Italian baritones
  • Pasquale Amato (1878–1942), operatic baritone; from 1908 to 1921 he sang leading baritone roles at the Metropolitan Opera
  • Ettore Bastianini (1922–1967), operatic baritone; was particularly associated with the operas of Verdi
  • Mattia Battistini (1856–1928), operatic baritone; a great master of bel canto
  • 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 Cotogni (1831–1918), operatic baritone
  • Giuseppe De Luca (1876–1950), operatic baritone
  • Tito Gobbi (1913–1984), operatic baritone; he sang in most of the great opera houses and was acclaimed for his acting ability
  • Rolando Panerai (1924–2019), baritone; début Florence (1946) with Lucia di Lammermoor
  • Giorgio Ronconi (1810–1890), operatic baritone; one of the most popular artists on the lyric stage until his retirement in 1866
  • Titta Ruffo (1877–1953), operatic baritone
  • 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

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  • Salvatore Baccaloni (1900–1969), operatic bass; known for his large repertory, he sang nearly 170 roles in five languages
  • Sesto Bruscantini (1919–2003), operatic bass-baritone, buffo singer
  • Enzo Dara (1938–2017), bass buffo; one of the foremost performers of his generation
  • Nazzareno De Angelis (1881–1962), operatic bass, particularly associated with Verdi, Rossini and Wagner roles
  • Ferruccio Furlanetto (born 1949), bass; known as a brilliant interpreter in the Italian repertoire and as a Mozart-singer
  • Luigi Lablache (1794–1858), operatic bass admired for his musicianship and acting
  • Paolo Montarsolo (1925–2006), operatic bass particularly associated with buffo roles
  • Tancredi Pasero (1893–1983), bass; particularly associated with the Italian repertory
  • Ezio Pinza (1892–1957), leading basso at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (1926–1948)
  • Cesare Siepi (1923–2010), bass singer who won over audiences worldwide in signature roles such as Don Giovanni and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro

Painters

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See also: List of Italian painters

Ancient Rome

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See also: Category:Ancient Roman painters

Middle Ages

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See also: Category:Italian painters

Renaissance and Mannerism

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  • 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]
  • Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479), Sicilian painter. Major works were altarpieces and portraits
  • Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534), painter, known for the frescoes in the domes of San Giovanni Evangelista and the Cathedral of Parma, where he worked from 1520 to 1530
  • 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
  • Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516), painter. Among his works may be cited St. Francis in Ecstasy (c. 1480) and Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (1501)
  • Jacopo Bellini (c. 1400 – c. 1470), painter who introduced the principles of Florentine early Renaissance art into Venice[113]
  • Ambrogio Bergognone (c. 1470 – 1523–1524), painter. His most important works are the frescoes in the Certosa di Pavia
  • 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
  • Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460 – 1525–1526), painter active in Venice, known for the cycle depicting the life of Saint Ursula and the Saint George series
  • 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]
  • Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509 or 1512–1571), painter and decorator. He is credited with introducing landscape painting in France
  • Dosso Dossi (c. 1490–1542), painter and leader of the Ferrarese school in the 16th century[117]
  • Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471–1546), painter and sculptor, one of the leading representatives of the Lombard school
  • Rosso Fiorentino (1494–1540), painter. His masterpiece is generally considered to be the Deposition or Descent from the Cross altarpiece in the Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra
  • Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), painter. She was one of the first women painters in European history to have enjoyed professional success[118]
  • Prospero Fontana (1512–1597), painter, father of Lavinia Fontana. One of the leading painters in Bologna
  • Vincenzo Foppa (c. 1430 – c. 1515), painter, leading figure in 15th-century Lombard art[119]
  • Fra Angelico (c. 1395–1455), painter. His best-known works are frescoes at the monastery of San Marco, Florence, and in the chapel of Pope Nicholas V in the Vatican
  • 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
  • Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370–1427), painter, one of the outstanding exponents of the elegant international Gothic style[121]
  • Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494), painter. His most famous achievement is his fresco cycle of the life of Mary and St. John the Baptist for the choir of Santa Maria Novella (1485–1490)
  • 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 Renaissance genius. Author of Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1506)
  • Filippino Lippi (c. 1457–1504), painter. His most popular painting is the Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard altarpiece (1480)
  • Filippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469), painter. His finest fresco cycle is in Prato cathedral and depicts the lives of St. Stephen and St. John the Baptist
  • 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
  • Lorenzo di Credi (1459–1537), painter and sculptor. Examples of his art are the Madonna with Child and Two Saints and Adoration
  • Lorenzo Monaco (c. 1370 – c. 1425), painter, one of the leading artists in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century[122]
  • Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480–1556), painter known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects
  • Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/1482–1532), painter, known for his mythological and religious frescoes
  • Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431–1506), painter. His most important works were nine tempera pictures of Triumph of Caesar (c. 1486) and his decoration of the ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi
  • Masaccio (1401–1428), painter. His most famous works are the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel and in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, in Florence
  • Masolino da Panicale (c. 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
  • Maturino da Firenze (c. 1490 – c. 1528), painter, a close companion of Polidoro da Caravaggio
  • Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438–1494), painter of the Umbrian school. One of the great fresco artists of the 15th century
  • Michelangelo (1475–1564), sculptor, painter, architect and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[123] Author of The Creation of Adam (c. 1511)
  • Moretto da Brescia (c. 1498–1554), painter. Together with Romanino and Girolamo Savoldo, he was one of the most distinguished painters of Brescia of the 16th century[124]
  • 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
  • Piero della Francesca (c. 1415–1492), painter and mathematician. His most famous cycle, The History of the True Cross (1452–1466), depicts scenes from the Golden Legend
  • Piero di Cosimo (1462–1521), painter noted for his eccentric character and his fanciful mythological paintings[125]
  • Pietro Perugino (1446–1524), painter. One of his most famous masterpieces is The Delivery of the Keys (1481–1482), in the Sistine Chapel
  • 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 Primaticcio (1504–1570), painter, architect, sculptor, and leader of the first school of Fontainebleau[128]
  • Francesco Raibolini (c. 1450–1517), painter, goldsmith and medallist. His major surviving paintings are altarpieces, mostly images of the Virgin and saints
  • Raphael (1483–1520), painter and architect, expressed the ideals of the High Renaissance, known for his Madonnas
  • 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
  • Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485–1547), painter of the Venetian School, known for his portraits, including his portrayal of Pope Clement VII (1526)
  • 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
  • Domenico Veneziano (c. 1410–1461), painter. In Florence he created his most celebrated work, the St. Lucy Altarpiece (c. 1445–1447)
  • Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), painter of the Venetian school, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573)
  • 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

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The 1800s

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The 1900s

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Photographers

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Printers

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Printmakers

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Saints

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  • 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
  • Agnes of Rome (c. 291–c. 304), legendary Christian martyr, the patron saint of girls
  • Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), theologian, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, and a principal influence in the Counter-Reformation
  • 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 11 June
  • Francis of Paola (1416–1507), mendicant friar. The founder of the Minims, a religious order in the Catholic Church
  • Hippolytus of Rome (170–235), Christian martyr who was also the first antipope (217/218–235)
  • 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
  • Philip Neri (1515–1595), priest. The founder of the Congregation of the Oratory, a congregation of secular priests and clerics
  • Nicholas of Tolentino (1246–1305), known as the Patron of Holy Souls, was an Italian saint and mystic.
  • Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968), Capuchin priest. He is renowned among Roman Catholics as one of the Church's modern stigmatists
  • Rita of Cascia (1381–1457), Augustinian nun
  • Saint Rosalia (1130–1166), hermitess, greatly venerated at Palermo and in the whole of Sicily of which she in patroness
  • Rose of Viterbo (1233–1251), she spent her brief life as a recluse, who was outspoken in her support of the papacy.
  • Roger of Cannae (1060–1129), Bishop
  • Saint Valentine (3rd century AD), according to tradition, he is the patron saint of courtship, travelers, and young people
  • Saint Vitus (c. 290 – c. 303), Christian saint. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Catholic Church
  • 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.

Scientists

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Sculptors

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Sportspeople

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Writers and philosophers

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See also: List of Italian journalists, List of Italian philosophers, and List of Italian writers

Ancient and Late Antique

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Main article: Latin literature
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The Middle Ages

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Humanism and the Renaissance

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  • Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), writer and satirist; known for his literary attacks on his wealthy and powerful contemporaries and for six volumes of letters
  • Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), poet remembered for his epic poem Orlando furioso (1516)
  • Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), cardinal who wrote one of the earliest Italian grammars and assisted in establishing the Italian literary language[214]
  • Francesco Berni (1497/98–1535), poet; important for the distinctive style of his Italian burlesque, which was called bernesco and imitated by many poets[215]
  • Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), poet and scholar, author of De mulieribus claris, the Decameron and poems in the vernacular
  • Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/41–1494), poet whose Orlando innamorato, the first poem to combine elements of both Arthurian and Carolingian traditions of romance[216]
  • Giovanni Botero (c. 1544–1617), philosopher and diplomat, known for his work The Reason of State (1589)
  • 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
  • Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), courtier, diplomat and writer, known for his dialogue The Book of the Courtier; one of the great books of its time[217]
  • Francesco Colonna (1433–1527), author of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
  • 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
  • Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612), poet who, with Torquato Tasso, is credited with establishing the form of a new literary genre, the pastoral drama[218]
  • 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)
  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), scholar and Platonist philosopher; his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) is better known than any other philosophical text of the 15th century
  • 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)
  • Ottavio Rinuccini (1562–1621), poet, courtier and opera librettist
  • Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406), philosopher, man of letters and a skilled writer; Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition
  • Jacopo Sannazaro (1456–1530), poet; author of Arcadia (1501–1504), first pastoral romance[219]
  • Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), scholar; author of De causis linguae Latinae (1540) and Poetics (1561)[220]
  • 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
  • Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), poet, one of the foremost writers of the Renaissance, celebrated for his heroic epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (1581)[221]
  • 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[222]
  • 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)[223]
  • Nicoletto Vernia (1442–1499), Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua
  • 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[224]

The Baroque period and the Enlightenment

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  • 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)
  • Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), philosopher and art critic; author of a number of stimulating essays on the subjects of architecture (1753), the opera (1755), and painting (1762)[225]
  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), philosopher and mathematician; first woman to write a mathematics handbook and first woman as mathematics professor in a university[226]
  • Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719–1789), literary critic; author of Italian Library (1757)
  • Giambattista Basile (c. 1575–1632), poet; his collection of 50 short stories Pentamerone (1634–6), provided the content later borrowed by Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm. With Straparola, he is one of the two fathers of fairy tale tradition
  • Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794), philosopher, criminologist and jurist; works include his treatise Dei delitti e delle pene (1763–64)[227]
  • Saverio Bettinelli (1718–1808), writer; author of Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi (1758)
  • Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), Dominican philosopher and writer; remembered for his socialistic work The City of the Sun (1602)[228]
  • Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798), was author and adventurer from the Republic of Venice
  • Giuseppe Lorenzo Maria Casaregi (1670–1737), jurist and advocate
  • 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
  • Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838), poet and librettist; his most important librettos were for Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), and Così fan tutte (1790)
  • 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)
  • Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538–1612), poet and theoretician of literature; his best-known work is Il pastor fido (1590), a pastoral tragicomedy
  • 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

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  • 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[229]
  • 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[230]
  • 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)[231]
  • Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908), novelist and short-story writer; his most important work is the sentimental children's story Heart (1886)[232]
  • Federico De Roberto (1861–1927), writer; known for his novel I Vicerè (1894)
  • Francesco de Sanctis (1817–1883), historian and literary critic; important works are his Saggi critici (1866) and his Storia della letteratura italiana (1870–71)[233]
  • 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[234]
  • Vincenzo Gioberti (1801–1852), philosopher and political writer; his most celebrated work is Del primato morale e civile degli italiani (1843)[235]
  • 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
  • Francesco Guicciardini (1851–1915), member of the Italian cabinet
  • Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), poet and philosopher; author of Canti (1816–37), expressing a deeply pessimistic view of humanity and human nature
  • Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), poet and novelist; he is famous for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature
  • 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
  • Achille Torelli (1841–1922), playwright
  • Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), novelist; his works include Cavalleria rusticana (1880), I Malavoglia (1881), Novelle rusticane (1883), and Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1889)[236]

The 1900s

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Other notables

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  • Laura de Santillana (1955–2019), contemporary glass artist
  • 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
  • Franco Archibugi (1926–2020), economist and planner
  • Giorgio Armani (born 1934), fashion designer, socialite and businessman
  • Guido Barilla (born 1958), businessman, and the chairman of Barilla Group, the world's largest pasta company
  • Rabbi Berel Lazar (born in 1964) Chief Rabbi of Russia
  • 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
  • Luciano Benetton (born 1935), businessman, co-founders of Benetton Group, the reknowed Italian fashion brand.
  • 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.
  • Fortunato Brescia Tassano (died 1951), businessman who founded Grupo Breca, a real estate company-turned-conglomerate. He emigrated to Peru in 1889.
  • 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
  • Marilù Capparelli Italian lawyer at Google
  • Pierre Cardin (1922–1920), fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs
  • Leo Castelli Italian art trader
  • 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,
  • Raffaele Cicala (c. 1960), businessman, CEO of LaSer Group.
  • Francesco Cirio (1836–1900), businessman, is credited with being one of the first in the world with developing the appertization technique in Italy
  • Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (born 1947), businessman, former Chairman of Ferrari, and formerly Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and President of Confindustria
  • 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
  • Jean Marie Farina (1685–1766, perfumier migrated in Germany who created the first Eau de Cologne
  • 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
  • Gianfranco Faina, Italian professor (?–1981)
  • Edoardo Fendi (1904–1954), fashion designer cofounder of a fur and leather Fendi shop in Via del Plebiscito, Rome.
  • Salvatore Ferragamo (1898–1960), shoe designer and the founder of luxury goods high-end retailer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.
  • Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Ferrari Grand Prix results and the Ferrari automobile marque
  • 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.
  • Stefano Gabbana (born 1962), fashion designer and co-founder of the Dolce & Gabbana luxury fashion house
  • Pirro Maria Gabrielli (1643-1705), physician
  • Raul Gardini (1933–1993), entrepreneur. In 1980 as CEO of Ferruzzi Group led the acquisition of Beeghin-Say SA. In 1987, bought the Montedison chemical group. In 1989 Eni and Montedison formed a joint-venture called Enimont [it].
  • Filippo Grandi (born 1957), diplomat, current United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Giovanni Achille Gaggia (1895–1961), inventor of the first modern steamless coffee machine on 5 September 1938, to be used commercially in his coffee bar.
  • Palizzolo Gravina, baron of Ramione, 19th century heraldic writer
  • Guccio Gucci (1881–1953), businessman and fashion designer. He is known for being the founder of the fashion house of Gucci.
  • Lucia Guerrini (1921–1990), classical scholar and archaeologist
  • Carlo Guzzi (1889–1964), co-founder of Moto Guzzi
  • Andrea Illy (born 1964), businessman. He is the Chairman of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933
  • Ferdinando Innocenti (1891–1966), businessman who founded the machinery-works company Innocenti and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter.
  • Barbara Labate (brn 1970s), entrepreneur, co-founder of the successful shopping site Risparmio Super
  • Aldus Manutius (1449–1515), humanist, scholar, educator, and the founder of the Aldine Press
  • Javier Gerardo Milei (born 1970), politician and economist; he is the President of Argentina since 2023.
  • Mario Moretti Polegato (born 1952), entrepreneur, active in the footwear sector, who founded the company Geox of which he is the president
  • Antonio Pasin (1897–1990), industrialist founder of the Radio Flyer company, best known for making the Radio Flyer stamped steel toy wagon
  • Enrico Piaggio (1805–1965), industrialist took the decision to diversify his aeronautical plant into manufacturing Vespa scooters.
  • Charles Ponzi (1882–1949), swindler and artist in the U.S. and Canada
  • Francesco Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), artisan. Generally regarded as the inventor of Revolver (1833)[248]
  • 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"
  • Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815), distiller. Inventor of vermouth and aperitif (1786)
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), harpsichord maker generally credited with the invention of the piano (c. 1700)[249]
  • Francesco Datini (1335–1410), merchant whose business and private papers, preserved in Prato, constitute one of the most important archives of the economic history of the Middle Ages
  • Lorenzo de Tonti (c. 1602 – c. 1684), banker. The inventor of the system of annuities, now known as the tontine (1653)
  • Giuseppe Donati (1835–1925), musician. Inventor of the classical ocarina
  • 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".[250] The Spanish government knighted him in 1962[251]
  • Johann Maria Farina (1685–1766), perfume designer and maker. Inventor of Eau de Cologne (1709)
  • Dino De Laurentiis (1919–2010), film producer. He produced or co-produced more than 500 films, of which 38 were nominated for Academy Awards.
  • Sonia Gandhi (born 1946), Italian-born Indian politician and the president of the Indian National Congress, widow of former Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
  • 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)
  • John of Montecorvino (1246–1328), Franciscan and founder of the Catholic mission in China
  • Angelo Moriondo (1851–1914), inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884
  • Lisa del Giocondo (1479–1542 or c. 1551), her name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance
  • Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti (1522–1590), jurist
  • 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.
  • Enrico Mattei (1906–1962), public administrator of Eni
  • 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
  • Aldo Notari (1932–2006), businessman was president of the International Baseball Federation from 1993 to 2006
  • Giuseppe Panza (1923–2010), art collector
  • Calogero Paparoni (1876–1958), coffee trader migrated to Venezuela
  • Rinaldo Piaggio (1864–1938), entrepreneur, senator, and founder of Piaggio Group
  • Generoso Papa (1891–1950), businessman and the owner of a chain of Italian-language newspapers in major USA cities
  • Carlo Ponti (1912–2007), film producer. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he popularized Italian cinema post-World War II,
  • Aurelio Peccei (1908–1984), industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of the Club of Roma
  • Giovanni Battista Pirelli (1848–1932), founder of Pirelli, the company specialised in rubber and derivative processes
  • 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
  • Giovanni Ricordi (1785–1853), founder of Casa Ricordi
  • Cola di Rienzo (c. 1313–1354), popular leader who tried to restore the greatness of ancient Rome
  • Angelo Rizzoli (1889–1970); publisher and film producer
  • 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
  • Massimo Salvadori (1908–1992), historian
  • 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
  • Michela Schiff Giorgini (1923–1978), Egyptologist
  • Maria Signorelli (1908–1992), puppet master and puppet collector from Rome
  • Father Simpliciano of the Nativity (1827–1898), founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts in Santa Balbina
  • 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 brand
  • Bornio da Sala (15th century–1496), lawyer, humanist, writer and law professor
  • 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
  • Paola Zancani Montuoro (1901–1987), classical archaeologist
  • Massimo Zanetti (born 1948), entrepreneur and former politician, owner of Segafredo, a global coffee company.
  • Ermenegildo Zegna (born 1955), entrepreneur and manager. He is CEO of the eponymous luxury fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna.

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