Italian geniuses

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We could not miss it. San Galgano, I ask for your help again.

ANCIENT ROMAN WRITERS FROM ITALY

Publius Vergilius Maro (or Virgilio) - born in Andes, Lombardy:
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most famous works: "Boucolica","Georgicon", "Eneide"

Gaio Valerio Catullo - born in Verona, Veneto:
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most famous work: "Liber"

Publius Ovidius Naso (or Ovidio) - born in Sulmona, Abruzzo:
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most famous work: "The art of Loving", "Remedia Amoris", "Heroides", "Medea", "Fasti", "Metamorfosi".

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (or Orazio)- born in Venosa, Lucania:
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works: "Saturae", "Epodon", "Epostolae", "Carmen Saeculare", "Carmina"

Titus Maccius Plautus (or Plauto) - born in Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna
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most famous comedies: "Amphitruo", "Asinaria", "Aulularia", "Miles Gloriosus", "Curculio", "Mostellaria".

Decimo Giunio Giovenale- born in Aquino, Latium:
work: "Saturae"

Albius Tibullus (Tibullo)- Latium
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Work: "Corpus Tibullianum"

Livius Andronicus - Taranto, Apulia
Work: Odusia + various tragedies

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ARCHIMEDES (Greek of Sicily)


LEONARDO FIBONACCI


PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA


LEONARDO DA VINCI


GALILEO GALILEI


FRANCESCO MARIA GRIMALDI


EUSTACHIO MANFREDI- mathematician, astronomer, poet


AMEDEO AVOGADRO


ALESSANDRO VOLTA


AUGUSTO RIGHI


PAOLO RUFFINI- mathematician and doctor


ANTONINO ZICHICHI


ETTORE MAJORANA


DOMENICO PACINI


ALESSANDRA BUONANNO

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List of persons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_called_%22polymaths%2 2) who have been called "polymaths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath)"

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Sesto Properzio born in Assisi, Umbria

Gaius Maecenas born in Arezzo, Tuscany

Cato the Elder born in Tusculum, Latium

Cato the Younger born in Rome, Latium.

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Enrico Fermi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

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Niccolo' Machiavelli, born in Florence-Tuscany-(3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527)
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Pico della Mirandola, born in Mirandola-Emilia Romgna-(24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494)
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ROMANS

Plinius the Elder and Plinius the Young - both born in Como, Lombardy.
Roman writer the first, with a passion for natural sciences; writer and senator the second. Of him the most famous passages are the ones describing the eruption of Vesuvio in a.D. 79 and the destruction of Pompei and Ercolano.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Though born in Gallia he was actually of Roman descendence. His most famouse work is "De Historia et situ Germanorum" (or Germania).

ITALIAN MASTER PAINTERS

xiii century:
CIMABUE
GIOTTO

xv century:

BEATO ANGELICO
GENTILE BELLINI
SANDRO BOTTICELLI
LEONARDO DA VINCI
ANDREA MANTEGNA
GIOVANNI BELLINI

xvi century:

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

xvii century:

GIAN LORENZO BERNINI
CARAVAGGIO

[European Heartlander]

Some of my favourite italian geniuses:

Italo Calvino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino)

Giacomo Casanova (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcimboldi)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini)

Petronius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius)

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Some of my favourite italian geniuses:

Italo Calvino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Calvino)

Giacomo Casanova (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcimboldi)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini)

Petronius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronius)

CASANOVA.... YES, I AGREE :thumb001:

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Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paciolo) (1446/7, Sansepolcro – 1517) Tuscany:D
was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting, for which he is often regarded as the "Father of Accounting"

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Piero della Francesca (Borgo San Sepolcro-Arezzo-:Dc. 1415[1] – October 12, 1492)
To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist.

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Sordello Da Goito- (trovatore) Mantova 1210-1269

Antonio Vivaldi - Venice 1678/Wien 1741

Domenico Scarlatti - Neaples 1685/Madrid 1757
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Gioacchino Rossini- Pesaro1792/ Paris 1868
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Niccolò Paganini- Genoa 1782- Nizza 1840
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Giuseppe Verdi- Roncole Verdi 1813/Milan 1901
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Giacomo Puccini- Lucca 1858/Bruxelles 1924

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Voice of Pavarotti (an other great Italian :wink)

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Evangelista Torricelli(Faenza October 15, 1608 –Florence October 25, 1647 ) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer and discovery of Torricelli's equation (an equation created by Evangelista Torricelli to find the final velocity of an object moving with a constant acceleration without having a known time interval.)

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Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered the most influential individual in the history of Western architecture.
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Filippo Brunelleschi (Florence 1377 – April 15, 1446) was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy.

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Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499/1500, Brescia, Italy – 13 December 1557, Venice, Italy) was a mathematician, an engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from the then-Republic of Venice (now part of Italy). He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics. Tartaglia was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs; his work was later validated by Galileo's studies on falling bodies.

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Gabriele Falloppio (1523 – October 9, 1562), often known by his Latin name Fallopius, was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century.
Falloppio's own work dealt mainly with the anatomy of the head. He added much to what was known before about the internal ear and described in detail the tympanum and its relations to the osseous ring in which it is situated. He also described minutely the circular and oval windows (fenestræ) and their communication with the vestibule and cochlea. He was the first to point out the connection between the mastoid cells and the middle ear. His description of the lacrimal ducts in the eye was a marked advance on those of his predecessors and he also gave a detailed account of the ethmoid bone and its cells in the nose. His contributions to the anatomy of the bones and muscles were very valuable. It was in myology particularly that he corrected Vesalius. He studied the reproductive organs in both sexes, and described the Fallopian tube, which leads from the ovary to the uterus and now bears his name. The aquæductus Fallopii, the canal through which the facial nerve passes after leaving the auditory nerve, is also named after him.

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RITA LEVI MONTALCINI is an Italian nobel prize in Phisiology and Medicine, senator and neurologist. She's also the oldest living nobel prize on earth.

In 1968, she became the tenth woman elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

In 1983, she was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Stanley Cohen (co-winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and Viktor Hamburger.

In 1986 Levi-Montalcini and collaborator Stanley Cohen received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, as well as the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. This made her the fourth Nobel Prize winner to come from Italy's small (less than 50,000 people) but very old Jewish community, after Emilio Segrè, Salvador Luria (a university colleague and friend) and Franco Modigliani.

In 1987, she received the National Medal of Science, the highest American scientific honor.

In 1999, she was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) by FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf.[14]

In 2001 she was nominated Senator-for-life by the Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

In 2006 she received the degree Honoris Causa in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, in her native city.

In 2008 she received the PhD Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

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Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɔrdʒo deˈkiːriko]; July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genoese mother and a Sicilian father.[1] He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone.

After studying art in Athens and Florence, De Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer and Otto Weininger and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger.

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Carlo Verdone - the greatest genius ever - :D

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2 full pages, and no mention of Dante!? I guess it's up to me then,

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Born in Firenze, died and buried in Ravenna.

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Dante is best known as the author of The Divine Comedy (la Divina Commedia), a seminal work in the development of the Italian language. In this regard it's like the Beowulf of Italian. It could also be considered an early and pioneering work of neo-classicism, as the Divine Comedy is a real "who's who" of Classical figures. Dante places himself as the main character as he makes his way through Hell, Purgatory, and finally Heaven, guided by the Roman poet Virgil along the way. It's a very vivid, epic story and a favorite of mine.

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Livorno, July 12, 1884 – Paris, January 24, 1920) was an Italian (Jew) artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.

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Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, July 8, 1593 - Neaples,1653)[1] was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first female painter to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.

She was one of the first female artists to paint historical and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a woman's reach.

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Gabriele D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio[1] (ennobled by the King of Italy in 1924 as Principe di Montenevoso; Italian pronunciation: [ɡabriˈɛːle danˈnuntsjo]; 12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil.[citation needed] His role in politics is controversial due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his status as the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini.


D'Annunzio was of Dalmatian extraction.[2] He was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, the son of a wealthy landowner and mayor of the town whose name was originally Francesco Rapagnetta, to which both father and son legally added D'Annunzio. The son was baptized Gaetano and gained the name of Gabriele as a nickname in childhood, from his angelic looks.[3] His precocious talent was recognised early in life, and he was sent to school at the Liceo Cicognini in Prato, Tuscany. He published his first poetry while still at school at the age of sixteen with a small volume of verses called Primo Vere (1879), influenced by Giosuè Carducci's Odi barbare, in which, side by side with some almost brutal imitations of Lorenzo Stecchetti, the fashionable poet of Postuma, were some translations from the Latin, distinguished by such agile grace that Giuseppe Chiarini on reading them brought the unknown youth before the public in an enthusiastic article. In 1881 D'Annunzio entered the University of Rome La Sapienza, where he became a member of various literary groups, including Cronaca Bizantina and wrote articles and criticism for local newspapers.


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