100 Notable alumni of
Sapienza University of Rome
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The Sapienza University of Rome is 47th in the world, 16th in Europe, and 1st in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Sapienza University of Rome sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the Sapienza University of Rome won Nobel Prizes in Physics.
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Terence Hill
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- screenwriterfilm actoractorfilm producerfilm screenwriter
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Terence Hill is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors.
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Bud Spencer
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- comedianactoraircraft pilotrugby union playerscreenwriter
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Carlo Pedersoli, known professionally as Bud Spencer, was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player. He was known for action-comedy and spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner and friend Terence Hill. The duo "garnered world acclaim and attracted millions to theater seats". Spencer and Hill appeared in 18 films together.
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Federico Fellini
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- satiristwritercomics artistdirectorscreenwriter
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Federico Fellini was an Italian filmmaker. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8+1⁄2 as the 10th-greatest film.
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Mario Draghi
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1970
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- politicianuniversity teacherbankereconomistinternational forum participant
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Mario Draghi is an Italian economist, academic, banker, and civil servant who served as the prime minister of Italy from February 2021 to October 2022. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, he served as President of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019. Draghi was also Chair of the Financial Stability Board between 2009 and 2011, and Governor of the Bank of Italy between 2006 and 2011.
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Paul VI
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- diplomatLatin Catholic priest
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Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death in August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council, which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. In January 1964, he flew to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This was the first time a reigning pontiff had flown on an airplane, the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century.
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Pius XII
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1895-1896
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- Catholic bishopLatin Catholic priest
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Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his election to the papacy, he served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany, and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with various European and Latin American nations, including the Reichskonkordat treaty with the German Reich.
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Maria Montessori
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- teacherphilosopherwriterphysicianinventor
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Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer. She soon had a change of heart and began medical school at the Sapienza University of Rome, becoming one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; she graduated with honors in 1896. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools globally.
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Giuseppe Conte
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1988
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- lawyerpoliticianacademicinternational forum participantjurist
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Giuseppe Conte is an Italian jurist, academic, and politician who served as prime minister of Italy from June 2018 to February 2021. He has been the president of the Five Star Movement (M5S) since August 2021.
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John XXIII
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- Catholic deaconLatin Catholic priest
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Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963. He was among 13 children born to Marianna Mazzola and Giovanni Battista Roncalli in a family of sharecroppers who lived in Sotto il Monte, a village in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after eleven ballots. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the first session opening on 11 October 1962, which is now his feast.
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Sergio Mattarella
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
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Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician, jurist, academic, and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023, Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
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Marcello Mastroianni
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- film actoractor
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Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top directors in a career spanning 147 films between 1939 and 1997, and garnered many international honours including two BAFTA Awards, two Best Actor awards at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, two Golden Globes, and three Academy Award nominations.
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Enrico Fermi
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- physicistuniversity teacherinventornuclear physicisttheoretical physicist
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Enrico Fermi was an Italian and later naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics. Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements. With his colleagues, Fermi filed several patents related to the use of nuclear power, all of which were taken over by the US government. He made significant contributions to the development of statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics.
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
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- essayistmilitary personnelpoetscreenwriteraircraft pilot
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General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to under the epithets il Vate ("the Poet"; the Italian vate directly stems from Latin vates, and its meaning is a poet with special emphasis on prophetic, inspiring, or divining qualities) and il Profeta ("the Prophet").
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Alessandra Mussolini
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied medicine
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- modelmusicianfilm actorpolitician
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Alessandra Mussolini is an Italian politician, television personality, model and former actress and singer. Mussolini has been a member of both houses of the Italian Parliament as well as the European Parliament. She is also known for being a member of the Mussolini family as a granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. Since 2022, she has been a Member of the European Parliament for Forza Italia.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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- directorfilm editorpoetfilm directorscreenwriter
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Bernardo Bertolucci OMRI was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in Italian cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international acclaim. He was the first Italian filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987), one of many accolades including a BAFTA Award, a César Award, and two Golden Globes. He also received a Golden Lion in 2007, and a Honorary Palme d'Or in 2011.
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Giulio Andreotti
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- diplomatwriterpoliticianreporterjournalist
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Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments (1972–1973, 1976–1979, and 1989–1992), and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing; he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister. Andreotti is widely considered the most powerful and prominent politician of the First Republic.
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Pius XI
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- mountaineerlibrarianLatin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti ( Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939. He also became the first sovereign of Vatican City upon its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 where he held that position in addition to being the earthly leader of the Catholic Church until his death in February 1939. He assumed as his papal motto "Pax Christi in Regno Christi", translated "The Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ".
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Luca Guadagnino
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
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Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, sensuality, and sumptuous visuals. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with actors Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, editor Walter Fasano and screenwriter David Kajganich.
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Paolo Gentiloni
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Graduated with laurea in political studies
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- journalistpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.
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Claudio Baglioni
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- composersinger-songwriterrecording artistscreenwritersinger
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Claudio Baglioni is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years.
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Carlo Verdone
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- film directorcomediandrummerfilm producerscreenwriter
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Carlo Gregorio Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
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Carlo Calenda
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- diplomatpoliticianbusiness manager
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Carlo Calenda is an Italian business executive and politician. On 2 May 2013, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development in the government of Enrico Letta, and was later confirmed in that post in the cabinet of Letta's successor, Matteo Renzi.
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Gigi Proietti
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- film directorstage actortelevision actorscreenwriterdub actor
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Luigi "Gigi" Proietti was an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, musician, singer and television presenter.
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Christian De Sica
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- film directorscreenwritersingeractorcomedian
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Christian De Sica is an Italian actor and film director.
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Alessandra Mastronardi
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- film actoractor
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Alessandra Carina Mastronardi is an Italian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films To Rome with Love and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the television series Master of None, for which she garnered a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2017.
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Paolo Bonolis
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- television presenteractor
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Paolo Bonolis is an Italian television host. He made his debut in 1981 on 3, 2, 1... contatto!, a programme for children that aired on Italian national broadcaster RAI.
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Nino Manfredi
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- television presenterplaywrightcomedianstage actoractor
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Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
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Cristiana Capotondi
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- film actorstage actor
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Cristiana Capotondi is an Italian actress.
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Alberto Angela
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- writerscience journalisttelevision presenterjournalistscience communicator
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Alberto Angela is an Italian paleontologist, writer and journalist. Angela is a famous history and science communicator in Italy.
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Evangelista Torricelli
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- physicistinventormathematician
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Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. The torr is named after him.
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Antonio Tajani
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- journalistjuristinternational forum participantpolitician
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Antonio Tajani is an Italian politician, journalist and former Italian Air Force officer, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 22 October 2022. He served as President of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2019, as European Commissioner from 2008 to 2014, and also as a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2008 and again from 2014 to 2022 until he was elected to Italy's Chamber of Deputies.
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Giorgio Agamben
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied jurisprudence and philosophy
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- university teacherwriterpoet lawyerphilosopheressayist
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Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (distinct from Ludwig Wittgenstein's form of life) homo sacer, and indifference. The concept of biopolitics (carried forth from the work of Michel Foucault) informs many of his writings.
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Marta Fascina
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- politicianpress agent
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Marta Fascina is an Italian politician from Forza Italia. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since the 2018 Italian general election.
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Philip Neri
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- priestCatholic priest
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Philip Romolo Neri, known as the "Second Apostle of Rome", after Saint Peter, was an Italian priest noted for founding a society of secular clergy called the Congregation of the Oratory.
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Ferzan Özpetek
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- journalistfilm directoropera directorscreenwriter
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Ferzan Özpetek is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.
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Ettore Majorana
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- physicistnuclear physicist
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Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples.
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Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
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- entrepreneurlawyerrally driverracing automobile driverbusinessperson
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Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is an Italian businessman who is best known as former Chairman of Ferrari, and formerly Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and President of Confindustria and FIEG.
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Antonello Venditti
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- pianistrecording artistsinger-songwritersinger
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Antonio "Antonello" Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who became popular in the 1970s for the social themes addressed in his songs.
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Edoardo Leo
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- film directortelevision actorscreenwriteractor
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Edoardo Leo is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
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Andrea Stramaccioni
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Andrea Stramaccioni is an Italian football manager and former player who last managed Qatari club Al Gharafa.
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Giulietta Masina
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- stage actorscreenwritertelevision writeractorfilm actor
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Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
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Alessandro Di Battista
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- politicianwriteractivist
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Alessandro Di Battista is an Italian politician, activist and writer, deputy of the XVII Legislature of the Italian Republic. He was part of the Five Stars Movement from 2009 to 2021. He left the movement in February 2021 because he was against the formation of the Draghi government.
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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- local historianscreenwriterpoettranslatoractivist
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.
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Ilaria D'Amico
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- journalistnovelistactivisttelevision presenter
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Ilaria D'Amico is an Italian television host and commentator. She is most known for her work on shows related to football in fact in June 2018 she left Italian Sky Sport.
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Vladimir Luxuria
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- politicianradio personalityactortelevision presenter
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Vladimir Luxuria, is an Italian activist, television personality and actress. Luxuria was a Communist Refoundation Party MP, belonging to The Union coalition led by Romano Prodi.
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Gabriele Muccino
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm actorfilm producerfilm screenwriter
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Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He has worked his way from making short films only aired on Italian television to become a well-known and successful American filmmaker. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films. Muccino has directed 12 films and is best known for his first American film The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith. Muccino has been nominated for and won several awards including the David di Donatello Award for Best Director in 2001 for his film The Last Kiss.
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Laura Boldrini
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1985
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- politicianjournalist
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Laura Boldrini, is an Italian politician and former United Nations official, who served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy. Previously she served as Spokesperson to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for Southern Europe.
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Gianfranco Fini
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Gianfranco Fini is an Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Alliance, and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlusconi's government from 2001 to 2006.
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Ettore Scola
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied law
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- film directorscreenwriterpoliticiandirector
- Biography
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Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Matteo Ricci
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- mathematicianmissionarypresbytercartographerexplorer
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Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. In 2022, the Apostolic See declared its recognition of Ricci's heroic virtues, thereby bestowing upon him the honorific of Venerable.
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Giuseppe Cruciani
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- television presenterjournalistradio personality
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Giuseppe Cruciani is an Italian radio personality, shock jock, television presenter and journalist. He is known in Italy for his provocative and irreverent manner.
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Francesca Fialdini
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- television presenterjournalistradio personality
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Francesca Fialdini is an Italian television and radio host.
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Piersanti Mattarella
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- politician
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Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician who was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily. A member of Christian Democracy, he was the older brother of Sergio Mattarella, who has been President of Italy since 2015.
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Paolo Genovese
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- film directorscreenwriterfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Paolo Genovese is an Italian director and screenwriter.
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Nunzia De Girolamo
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- television presenterpoliticianlawyer
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Nunzia De Girolamo is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as the minister of agricultural, food and forestry policies from late April 2013 to 26 January 2014.
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Hans Bethe
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1930-1931
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- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Hans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.
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Corrado Guzzanti
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- film directorscreenwritersingeractorcomedian
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Corrado Guzzanti is an Italian satirical actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and impersonator. He has become famous both for his impersonations of Italian personalities (politicians, journalists, entertainment and television celebrities), and for playing his own characters inspired by contemporary society. He is the director of the film Fascisti su Marte (Fascists on Mars, 2006). In 2010 he received the "Forte dei Marmi Political Satire Award". He has been described as a genius of satirical comedy, "the most interesting satirical author and actor today", and "among the comedians best loved by the Italian public".
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Curzio Malaparte
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- writerdiplomatnovelistjournalistwar correspondent
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Curzio Malaparte, born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples (it was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum).
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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- novelistwriteressayist
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Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe toˈmaːzi di lampeˈduːza]), was an Italian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn, solitary, shy, and somewhat misanthropic aristocrat, he opened up only with a few close friends, and spent a great deal of his time reading and meditating. He said of himself as a child, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people", and in 1954 wrote, "Of my sixteen hours of daily wakefulness, at least ten are spent in solitude."
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Benedict XIV
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- canon law juristCatholic priestpope
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Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in May 1758.
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Giusy Buscemi
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- actormodel
- Biography
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Giuseppina Buscemi, known as Giusy is an Italian actress and former model.
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Marco Pannella
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- politicianjournalist
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Marco Pannella was an Italian politician, journalist and activist. He was well known in his country for his nonviolence and civil rights' campaigns, like the right to divorce, the right to abortion, the legalization of cannabis and the abolition of nuclear power. Internationally, he supported human rights and self-determination causes, like the Tibetan independence and persecution of Christians in Vietnam.
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Riccardo Morandi
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- civil engineer
- Biography
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Riccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his innovative use of reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete, although over the years some of his particular cable-stayed bridges have had some maintenance trouble.
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Pius VIII
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- Catholic bishopLatin Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Pius VIII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 31 March 1829 to his death in November 1830.
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Cristina Comencini
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- film directornovelistwriterscreenwriter
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Cristina Comencini is an Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist.
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Giampiero Mughini
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- writerpoliticiancolumnistphilologistjournalist
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Giampiero Mughini is an Italian essayist, journalist and television personality.
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Roberto Gualtieri
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Roberto Gualtieri is an Italian historian, academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD), incumbent Mayor of Rome since 2021 and Minister of Economy and Finances in the second government of Giuseppe Conte from 2019 until 2021. He previously was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019.
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Claudio Lotito
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Claudio Lotito is an Italian entrepreneur and politician. He is the owner and president of the Serie A football club S.S. Lazio since 2004.
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Paolo Mieli
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- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Paolo Mieli is an Italian journalist who has been editor of Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
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Mario Adinolfi
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- journalistpoker playerbloggerpolitician
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Mario Adinolfi is an Italian journalist, politician and poker player. He is famous in Italy for his Catholic beliefs.
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Dino Risi
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- film directorscreenwriterpsychiatrist
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Dino Risi was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of commedia all'italiana.
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Eugenio Scalfari
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Eugenio Scalfari was an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of L'Espresso (1963–1968), a member of Parliament in Italy's Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972), and co-founder of La Repubblica and its editor-in-chief (1976–1996). He was known for his meetings and interviews with important figures, including Pope Francis, Enrico Berlinguer, Aldo Moro, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Roberto Benigni.
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Giancarlo Magalli
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- actortelevision presenterscreenwriter
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Giancarlo Magalli is an Italian television writer, presenter, actor and voice actor.
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Bruno Vespa
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- writertelevision presenteressayistscreenwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Bruno Paolo Vespa is an Italian television and newspaper journalist. A former director of the Italian state-owned TV channel Rai 1's news programme TG1, Vespa is the founding host of the programme Porta a Porta (English: "Door to door"), which has been broadcast without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.
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Giorgio Parisi
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- physicisttheoretical physicistuniversity teacherscientist
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Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. His best known contributions are the QCD evolution equations for parton densities, obtained with Guido Altarelli, known as the Altarelli–Parisi or DGLAP equations, the exact solution of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses, the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation describing dynamic scaling of growing interfaces, and the study of whirling flocks of birds. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe for groundbreaking contributions to theory of complex systems, in particular "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales".
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Corrado
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- television presenterradio personalityactorsinger
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Corrado Mantoni, known simply as Corrado, was an Italian radio and television host.
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Innocent XI
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Pope Innocent XI, born Benedetto Odescalchi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 September 1676 until his death.
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Saverio Costanzo
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Saverio Costanzo is an Italian film and television director.
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Francesco Rutelli
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- politicianjournalist
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Francesco Rutelli is an Italian journalist and former politician, who is the president of ANICA National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry, since October 2016 and re-elected for the 2020–2022 term, plus ANICA Servizi. He's the legal representative of MIA (Italian Audiovisual Market). He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile" (Centre for a Sustainable Future – a bipartisan think tank on climate change and environmental issues). He was during 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party, a centrist European political party. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001, and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. Currently he also chairs Incontro di Civiltà (Civilizations Meeting); Videocittà, Moving Images Festival (Rome, 2018–2019); Priorità Cultura (Culture First) that gathers outstanding Italian personalities, engaged on Heritage conservation and promotion, contemporary arts, public-private partnership in the many fields of Culture.
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Alessandro Cecchi Paone
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- television presenterjournalistpolitician
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Alessandro Cecchi Paone is an Italian television presenter, journalist, radio and television writer, and politician.
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Gloria Álvarez
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- writerannouncerpolitical scientisttelevision presenter
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Gloria Álvarez Cross is a Guatemalan radio and television presenter, author, and libertarian political commentator. She is the host of the Viernes de Gloria radio program in Guatemala. Álvarez is also the program director of the National Civic Movement of Guatemala, an organization that advocates for political participation in the national politics of Guatemala. She has also published books on political topics for a popular audience.
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Jole Santelli
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- politicianlawyer
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Jole Santelli was an Italian politician. A member of Forza Italia, she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.
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Gazebo
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- singersongwriterrecord producer
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Paul Mazzolini, known by his stage name Gazebo, is an Italian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer best known for his italo disco music style during the 1980s. His song "I Like Chopin" reached No. 1 in more than 15 countries, and his debut single "Masterpiece" was also an international success.
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Vinicio Marchioni
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- actor
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Vinicio Marchioni is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 2006.
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Aldus Manutius
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- printertutortype designereditorpublisher
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Aldus Pius Manutius was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press. Manutius devoted the later part of his life to publishing and disseminating rare texts. His interest in and preservation of Greek manuscripts mark him as an innovative publisher of his age dedicated to the editions he produced. Aldus Manutius introduced the small portable book format with his enchiridia, which revolutionized personal reading and are the predecessor of the modern paperback book. He also helped to standardize use of punctuation including the comma and the semicolon.
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Franco Frattini
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- juristpoliticianjudgediplomat
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Franco Frattini was an Italian politician and magistrate. From January to December 2022, Frattini served as president of the Council of State.
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Piero Calamandrei
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- lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjuristjournalist
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Piero Calamandrei was an Italian author, jurist, soldier, university professor, and politician. Born in Florence, he was one of Italy's leading authorities on the law of civil procedure.
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Silvio Muccino
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Silvio Muccino is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
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Alessandro D'Avenia
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- essayistwriterscreenwriterhellenistteacher
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Alessandro D'Avenia is an Italian writer, teacher and screenwriter. his book White as milk, red as blood, which led to the film of the same name.
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Barbara Alberti
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- writerscreenwriterradio personalityplaywrightjournalist
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Barbara Alberti is an Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter.
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Luigi Calabresi
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- police officer
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Luigi Calabresi was an Italian Polizia di Stato officer in Milan. Responsible for investigating far-left political movements, Calabresi was assassinated in 1972 by members of Lotta Continua, who blamed him for the death of anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli in police custody in 1969. The deaths of Pinelli and Calabresi were significant events during the Years of Lead, a period of major political violence and unrest in Italy from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Guido Bertolaso
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- physicianpoliticiancivil servant
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Guido Bertolaso is an Italian physician and state functionary, and from 2001 to 2010 was commander in chief of the Italian Civil Protection department.
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Niccolò Fabi
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- singer-songwritersongwritersingermusiciancomposer
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Niccolò Fabi is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to national fame after competing in the Newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1997, receiving the Mia Martini Critics' Award for his entry "Capelli".
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Clement X
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- diplomatCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Pope Clement X, born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 April 1670 to his death, in July 1676. Elected pope at age 79, he has since been ranked as the oldest pope at the time of his election.
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Maria Giovanna Maglie
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- writeressayistopinion journalistphilosopherjournalist
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Maria Giovanna Maglie was an Italian essayist, commentator and journalist.
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Lina Bo Bardi
- Enrolled in the Sapienza University of Rome
- Studied in 1939
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- exhibition curatorwriterarchitectuniversity teacherscenographer
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Lina Bo Bardi, born Achillina Bo, was an Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect. A prolific architect and designer, she devoted her working life, most of it spent in Brazil, to promoting the social and cultural potential of architecture and design. While she studied under radical Italian architects, she quickly became intrigued with Brazilian vernacular design and how it could influence a modern Brazilian architecture. During her lifetime it was difficult to be accepted among the local Brazilian architects, because she was both a "foreigner" and a woman.
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Innocent XIII
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- Catholic priest
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Pope Innocent XIII, born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He is the most recent pope to date to take the pontifical name of "Innocent" upon his election.
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Filippo Nigro
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- television actoractor
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Filippo Nigro is an Italian actor.
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Pietro Castellitto
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- actorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Pietro Contento Castellitto is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter, son of actor and director Sergio Castellitto and writer Margaret Mazzantini.
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Gianni Letta
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Giovanni "Gianni" Letta is an Italian journalist and politician. He was a close advisor of Silvio Berlusconi and is a member of the advisory board of Goldman Sachs International.
