100 Notable alumni of
University of Florence
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The University of Florence is 250th in the world, 84th in Europe, and 7th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Florence sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michelangelo
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- painterwriterengineerarchitectsculptor
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. Michelangelo's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century. He was lauded by contemporary biographers as the most accomplished artist of his era.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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- poettranslatorplaywrightphilosopherdiplomat
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
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Donatella Versace
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- designerfashion designerbusinessperson
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Donatella Francesca Versace, sometimes simply referred to mononymously as Donatella, is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, with whom she worked closely on the development of the brand and in particular its combining of Italian luxury with pop culture and celebrity.
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Matteo Renzi
- Enrolled in the University of Florence
- In 1999 studied jurisprudence
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- politician
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Matteo Renzi is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been the secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2013 to 2018, with a brief interruption in 2017.
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Richard Simmons
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- restaurateurradio personalityactorcomediandancer
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Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons is an American fitness personality and public figure, known for his eccentric, flamboyant, and energetic personality. He has promoted weight-loss programs, most prominently through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos.
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Italo Calvino
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- writernovelistessayistscreenwriterjournalist
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Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
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Oriana Fallaci
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- writerpoliticianpartisanwar correspondentjournalist
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Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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Franco Zeffirelli
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- directoractortheatrical directorfilm directorpolitician
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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same. A member of the Forza Italia party, he served as the Senator for Catania between 1994 and 2001.
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Nadia Toffa
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- television presenterjournalist
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Nadia Toffa was an Italian journalist and television presenter for satirical current affairs programme Le Iene who gained attention in 2017 for a series of stories about the environmental impacts of alleged nuclear testing at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.
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David Sassoli
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- journalistnews presenterinternational forum participantpolitician
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David Maria Sassoli was an Italian politician and journalist who served as the president of the European Parliament from 3 July 2019 until his death on 11 January 2022. Sassoli was first elected as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) in 2009.
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Indro Montanelli
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- journalistfilm directorwriterscreenwriter
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Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist, historian, and writer. He was one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute. A volunteer for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and an admirer of Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, Montanelli had a change of heart in 1943, and joined the liberal resistance group Giustizia e Libertà but was discovered and arrested along with his wife by Nazi authorities in 1944. Sentenced to death, he was able to flee to Switzerland the day before his scheduled execution by firing squad thanks to a secret service double agent.
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Maria Elena Boschi
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Maria Elena Boschi, is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.
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Roger Willemsen
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- writerlinguisttelevision presenterjournalistnews presenter
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Roger Willemsen was a German author, essayist and TV presenter.
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Chiara Francini
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- singeractor
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Chiara Francini is an Italian actress and author.
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Margherita Hack
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- astrophysicistuniversity teachernon-fiction writersecularistresearcher
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Margherita Hack was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific disseminator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.
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Roscoe Lee Browne
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- stage actorvoice actortelevision actorfilm actor
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Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film. He is perhaps best known for his role as Saunders in Soap (1980–81).
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Marsilio Ficino
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- clericwriterphysiciantranslatorphilosopher
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Marsilio Ficino was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a reviver of Neoplatonism in touch with the major academics of his day, and the first translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
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Renzo Montagnani
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- stage actortelevision actordub actorfilm actor
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Renzo Montagnani was an Italian actor and voice actor.
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Prince Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta
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- entrepreneur
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Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the family which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until 7 July 2006, Amedeo was styled Duke of Aosta; on that date he declared himself Duke of Savoy, a title that was disputed between him and his third cousin, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, only son of King Umberto II of Italy.
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Bradford Bishop
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- fugitivediplomat
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William Bradford Bishop Jr. is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 27, 2018, Bishop, who at the time would have been 81 years old, was removed from the list, making room, the FBI said, for another "dangerous fugitive". However, he is still being actively pursued by the FBI, and an INTERPOL Red Notice is still in effect.
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Pupi Avati
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- jazz musicianwriterdirectorscreenwriterfilm producer
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Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati, is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Zeder (1983).
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Michaëlle Jean
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- journalistpoliticiannews presenter
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Michaëlle Jean is a Canadian stateswoman and former journalist who served from 2005 to 2010 as governor general of Canada, the 27th since Canadian Confederation. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office.
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Dolcenera
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- film actorsinger-songwritercomposersingeractor
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Emanuela Trane, stage name "Dolcenera" [ˌdoltʃeˈneːra], is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy only in 2005, when she won the music-based reality show Music Farm and she released her second album, Un mondo perfetto. In 2005 she was also awarded Best New Artist of the Year at the Italian Meeting of Independent Record Labels and she received the De André Award for Best Emerging Artist.
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Nicola Rizzoli
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- association football refereearchitect
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Nicola Rizzoli is an Italian former football referee who refereed in the Italian Serie A from 2002 to 2017 and was a FIFA-listed referee from 2007 to 2017. He refereed the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina on 13 July at the Estádio do Maracanã and the 2013 Champions League Final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich at Wembley Stadium. Rizzoli won seven consecutive AIC Serie A Referee of the Year Awards from 2011 to 2017. On 18 February 2017, Soccer 360 included Rizzoli on its list of the top 5 referees in the 21st century.
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Alfonso Bonafede
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- politicianlawyer
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Alfonso Bonafede is an Italian lawyer and politician who has served as the Italian Minister of Justice since 1 June 2018. A lawyer by profession, Bonafede has also served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 15 March 2013 until 12 October 2022.
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Marco Columbro
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- actortelevision presenterstage actor
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Marco Columbro is an Italian actor and television host.
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Giovanni Spadolini
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- historianjournalistpolitician
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Giovanni Spadolini was an Italian politician and statesman, who served as the 44th prime minister of Italy. He had been a leading figure in the Republican Party and the first head of a government to not be a member of Christian Democrats since 1945. He was also a newspaper editor, journalist and historian. He is considered a highly respected intellectual for his literary works and his cultural dimension.
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Paolo Nespoli
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- amateur radio operatorastronautengineer
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Major Paolo Angelo Nespoli is an Italian astronaut and engineer of the European Space Agency (ESA). In 2007, he first traveled into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist of STS-120. In December 2010 he again traveled into space aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft as an Expedition 26/27 flight engineer. Nespoli's third spaceflight was on board Soyuz MS-05, which launched in July 2017 for Expedition 52/53. He was also the European Space Agency's oldest active astronaut prior to his retirement in 2019.
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Giovanni Sartori
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- university teachersociologistwriterpolitical scientistjournalist
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Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy, political parties, and comparative politics.
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Antonino Caponnetto
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- judgemagistrate
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Antonino Caponnetto was an Italian Antimafia magistrate.
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Lamberto Dini
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- bankereconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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Lamberto Dini is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st Prime Minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001.
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Giorgio Albertazzi
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- film actortelevision directorscreenwriteractorfilm director
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Giorgio Albertazzi was an Italian actor and film director.
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Poliziano
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- writeruniversity teacherpoetplaywrightphilologist
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Agnolo Ambrogini ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈaɲɲolo ambroˈdʒiːni]; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano ( Italian: [ˈandʒelo politˈtsjaːno]) or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. His nickname Poliziano, by which he is chiefly identified to the present day, was derived from the Latin name of his birthplace, Montepulciano (Mons Politianus).
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Gaetano Salvemini
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- historianhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacheracademicpolitician
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Gaetano Salvemini was an Italian socialist and anti-fascist politician, historian, and writer. Born in a family of modest means, he became an acclaimed historian both in Italy and abroad, particularly in the United States, after he was forced into exile by Benito Mussolini's Italian fascist regime.
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Sandro Veronesi
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- children's writerwriterarchitectpoetscreenwriter
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Sandro Veronesi is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (Il resto del cielo, 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. He has since published five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplays, and television programs.
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Dario Nardella
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- politician
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Dario Nardella is an Italian politician who has been the Mayor of Florence since 26 May 2014 and the first Metropolitan Mayor of Florence since 1 January 2015. He is the first mayor of Florence who has been elected twice in the first term. He was also a deputy for the Democratic Party in the 17th legislature until his election as mayor.
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Giorgio La Pira
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- politicianlawyer
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Giorgio La Pira, TOSD was an Italian Catholic politician who served as the Mayor of Florence. He also served as a deputy for Christian Democracy and participated in the assembly that wrote the Italian Constitution following World War II. In his public and private life he was a tireless champion of peace and human rights who worked for the betterment of the poor and disenfranchised. La Pira belonged to the Third Order of Saint Dominic. From 1934 until his death he lived in the San Marco complex.
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Paolo Poli
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actorscreenwriter
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Paolo Poli was an Italian theatre actor. He has also acted in films and on television.
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Beppe Bigazzi
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- journalist
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Giuseppe Bigazzi was an Italian executive, journalist, television presenter and writer. He was a television presenter for the RAI show La prova del cuoco.
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Elizabeth Bentley
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- spydouble agent
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Elizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American NKVD spymaster, who was recruited from within the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She served the Soviet Union as the primary handler of multiple highly placed moles within both the United States Federal Government and the Office of Strategic Services from 1938 to 1945. She defected by contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and debriefing about her espionage activities.
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Fosco Maraini
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- writerscientistdocumentarianmountaineeranthropologist
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Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.
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Abdulqawi Yusuf
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- juristpoliticianjudgediplomat
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Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf is a Somali lawyer and judge serving on the International Court of Justice since 2009. He served as the court's president from 2018 to 2021.
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Carlo Rosselli
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- writerpoliticianresistance fighterphilosopherjournalist
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Carlo Alberto Rosselli was an Italian political leader, journalist, historian, philosopher and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy and then abroad. He developed a theory of reformist, non-Marxist socialism inspired by the British Labour movement that he described as "liberal socialism". Rosselli founded the anti-fascist militant movement Giustizia e Libertà. Rosselli personally took part in combat in the Spanish Civil War, where he served on the Republican side.
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Mauro Bolognini
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- film directorscreenwritertheatrical director
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Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film and stage director.
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Luca Lotti
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- politician
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Luca Lotti is an Italian politician who served as the Minister for Sport from 2016 to 2018 in the Gentiloni Cabinet.
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Mario Luzi
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- poetplaywrightwriterpolitician
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Mario Luzi was an Italian poet.
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Flavio Manzoni
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- car designerarchitect
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Flavio Manzoni is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He is the Chief Design Officer at Ferrari from January 2010 and he has led in the creation of many Ferrari models including the Ferrari F12berlinetta, in collaboration with Pininfarina; LaFerrari, the first hybrid of the little horse, also born from his pencil, and in 2014 he gained the Compasso d'Oro for the F12berlinetta project (together with Pininfarina and Ferrari Style Center).
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Eugenio Giani
- Enrolled in the University of Florence
- Graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
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- politicianwriteressayist
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Eugenio Giani is an Italian politician.
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Vasco Pratolini
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- journalistpartisanwriterscreenwriter
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Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
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Tommaso Landolfi
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- science fiction writercriticlinguistnovelistwriter
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Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian writer, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize.
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Giovanni Amendola
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- journalistpoliticianphilosopher
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Giovanni Amendola was an Italian journalist, professor, and politician. He is noted as an opponent of Italian fascism.
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Ardito Desio
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- cartographerexplorermountaineergeologist
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Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
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Lia Quartapelle
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- researcherpoliticianeconomist
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Lia Quartapelle is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD).
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Irene Vallejo
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- philologistwriter
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Irene Vallejo Moreu, born in Zaragoza in 1979, is a Spanish philologist, historian, and writer.
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Daniele Piombi
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- television presenterradio personality
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Daniele Piombi was an Italian television and radio presenter and television writer.
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Mario Praz
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- university teacherwriterart historianart collectortranslator
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Mario Praz was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, The Romantic Agony (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, erotic and morbid themes that characterised European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries (see Femme fatale for a reference of one of his chapters). The book was written and published first in Italian as La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica in 1930; and the most recent edition was published in Florence by Sansoni in 1996.
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Riccardo Nencini
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- politicianwriter
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Riccardo Nencini is an Italian politician.
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Evan Jenkins
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- lawyerpoliticianinstructorbusinessperson
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Evan Hollin Jenkins is an American politician and judge. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, joining the Court in 2018 and serving as chief justice in 2021. He resigned from the court on February 4, 2022. He served as a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 2015 to 2018. He is a Republican, having switched his party affiliation from Democratic in 2013.
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Franco Fortini
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- translatorwriteruniversity teacherlinguistliterary critic
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Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
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Luciano Lama
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- partisantrade unionistpolitician
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Luciano Lama was an Italian trade unionist and politician, General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1970 to 1986.
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Giovanni della Casa
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- priestpoetwriterdiplomat
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Giovanni della Casa was an Italian poet, diplomat, clergyman and inquisitor, and writer on etiquette and society. He is celebrated for his famous treatise on polite behavior, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi (1558). From the time of its publication, this courtesy book has enjoyed enormous success and influence. In the eighteenth century, influential critic Giuseppe Baretti wrote in The Italian Library (1757), "The little treatise is looked upon by many Italians as the most elegant thing, as to stile, that we have in our language."
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Gabriele Veneziano
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- university teacherphysicist
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Gabriele Veneziano is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013, until the age of retirement there.
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Carla Voltolina
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- partisanjournalistpsychologist
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Carla Voltolina, later Carla Pertini, was a journalist, Italian partisan, and psychotherapist. She undertook investigations into prostitution in Italy and provided therapy at hospitals and addiction-treatment clinics across Italy.
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Ettore Bernabei
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- journalist
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Ettore Bernabei was an Italian television director and producer.
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Teresa Mattei
- Enrolled in the University of Florence
- Graduated with philosophy
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- partisanpoliticianwomen's rights activistresistance fighteractivist
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Teresa Mattei, also known as Teresita was an Italian partisan and politician.
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Carlo Bo
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- university teacherpoliticianliterary critic
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Carlo Bo was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinguished humanist, professor and senator for life from 1984.
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Gianfranco Pasquino
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- university teacherpoliticianpolitical scientist
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Gianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist. Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Senior Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Europe (Bologna). He studied at the University of Turin under Norberto Bobbio and specialized under Giovanni Sartori at the University of Florence. In his professional life, he has been associated with the University of Florence, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles and the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC and Fellow of Christchurch and St Antony's at Oxford and Life Fellow of Claire Hall, Cambridge.
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Elena Linari
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- association football player
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Elena Linari is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Serie A club AS Roma and the Italy women's national team. She has also played for FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Atlético Madrid, Fiorentina and Brescia, and she has won four league titles, four cups and two supercups. She has represented Italy internationally since 2013.
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Israel Zolli
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- rabbi
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Eugenio Maria Zolli, born Israel Anton Zoller, was an Austrian by birth, and an Italian doctorate professor of philosophy and author. Until his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism in February 1945, Zolli was the chief rabbi in Rome, Italy's Jewish community from 1940 to 1945. After the war, he taught philosophy at a number of institutions throughout Rome including the Sapienza University of Rome and Pontifical Biblical Institute.
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Carla Lonzi
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- writerart criticopinion journalistwomen's rights activistactivist
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Carla Lonzi was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.
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Deborah Bergamini
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- politicianjournalist
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Deborah Bergamini is an Italian politician, manager and journalist currently member of the Italian Parliament.
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Elisabetta Gualmini
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- political scientistpolitician
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Elisabetta Gualmini is an Italian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
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Franco Scaglione
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- designer
- Biography
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Franco Scaglione was an Italian automobile coachwork designer.
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Umberto Cassuto
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- historianuniversity teacherrabbi
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Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, was an Italian historian, a rabbi, and a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic literature, in the University of Florence, then at the University of Rome La Sapienza. When the 1938 anti-Semitic Italian racial laws forced him from this position, he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Giuseppe Ferrara
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- film directorfilm producerfilm screenwriterwriterscreenwriter
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Giuseppe Ferrara was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Monica Frassoni
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- politician
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Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009 and as co-chair of the European Green Party from 2009 to 2019. In 2018, she was elected at the local Council of Ixelles in the Brussels Region, representing the Ecolo party.
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Jerónimo Saavedra
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- lawyeracademictrade unionistpolitician
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Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.
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Francesco Carofiglio
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- architectwriter
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Francesco Carofiglio is an Italian architect, writer and director. Son of writer Enza Buono and brother of writer and member of the Italian Senate Gianrico Carofiglio.
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Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle
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- partisanpolitician
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Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle was an Italian anti-fascist partisan and practicing lawyer, notable for capturing Benito Mussolini at Dongo in April 1945, where he used the nom de guerre of Pedro.
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Francesco Bonifazi
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- politician
- Biography
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Francesco Bonifazi is an Italian politician, senator elected with the Democratic Party in the 2018 general elections, before moving on to Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva in 2019.
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Mario Occhiuto
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- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Mario Occhiuto, is an Italian politician and architect.
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Francesco Milleri
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- business executive
- Biography
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Francesco Milleri is an Italian businessman, who has been the CEO of EssilorLuxottica since June 2022.
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Christian Wolff
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- university teacherteacherclassical scholarcomposermusic teacher
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Christian G. Wolff is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist.
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Scipio Slataper
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- writer
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Scipio Slataper was an Italian writer, most famous for his lyrical essay My Karst. He is considered, alongside Italo Svevo, the initiator of the prolific tradition of Italian literature in Trieste.
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David Ermini
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- politician
- Biography
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David Ermini is an Italian lawyer and politician, vice president of the High Council of the Judiciary from 2018 to 2023.
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Massimo Bray
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- historianpoliticianpublisher
- Biography
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Massimo Bray is an Italian intellectual and politician, who served as the minister of culture from 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014.
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Giuseppe Occhialini
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- physicist
- Biography
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Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol.
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Fiamma Nirenstein
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- historianwriterpoliticianbloggerjournalist
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Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and politician. In 2008 she was elected to the Italian Parliament for Silvio Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party and she served as Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies for the length of the legislature, ending in March 2013. On 26 May 2013 she immigrated to Israel (made Aliyah). In 2015, Nirenstein was nominated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the future ambassador to Italy, but subsequently withdrew for what she stated were personal reasons. She is Senior Fellow of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) and currently works there, at the Israeli-based think-tank of JPCA. She writes for the Italian right-wing daily Il Giornale and contributes articles in English to the Jewish News Syndicate. She is also on the Board of ISGAP and of the WJC.
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Marco Tarchi
- Enrolled in the University of Florence
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in political science
- Graduated with Licentiate in political science
- Occupations
- political scientist
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Marco Tarchi is an Italian political scientist. He is currently full professor of Political Science, Political Theory and Political Communication at the Cesare Alfieri School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence. His research is focused primarily on populism, democracy, political organization, and extreme right.
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Marta Dassù
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- historianpoliticianessayisttennis playerpolitical scientist
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Marta Dassù is an Italian politician who served as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in the government led by Mario Monti from 2011 to 2013 and as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Enrico Letta from 2013 to 2014. She serves as Senior Director of European Affairs at the Aspen Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Aspen Institute Italia's journal, Aspenia. She is a regular contributor to the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
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Patricio Fernández
- Enrolled in the University of Florence
- Studied Renaissance art
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitical analyst
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Patricio Herman Fernández Chadwick is a Chilean writer and journalist who was elected as a member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention.
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Giani Stuparich
- Years
- 1891-1961 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- writernovelistpartisanpedagoguejournalist
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Giani Stuparich was an Italian writer. He was born in Trieste, then in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "La Grotta" ("The Cave").
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Konstantinos Tsaldaris
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- politicianlawyer
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Konstantinos Tsaldaris was a Greek politician and twice Prime Minister of Greece.
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Philip Mazzei
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- writerphysicianphilosopherdiplomat
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Filippo Mazzei was an Italian physician, winemaker, and arms dealer. A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, Mazzei acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
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François Antommarchi
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- physiciansurgeonuniversity teacherbotanist
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François Carlo Antommarchi was Napoleon's physician from 1819 to his death in 1821.
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Riccardo Petrella
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- economistuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
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Riccardo Petrella, born on 5 August 1941 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy, is an Italian political scientist and economist; he has a doctorate in political sciences from the University of Florence). Currently professor emeritus at the University of Louvain, he participates in a tradition that unites Christianity, personalism and solidarity principles. In 1991, he founded the Lisbon Group, which was composed of 21 academic, business, media and cultural decision-makers, so as to enhance the critical analyses of the current globalization. He is also a member of the World Social Forum and the Porto Alegre Manifesto.
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Franca Falcucci
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- politicianteacher
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Franca Falcucci was an Italian politician, member of the Christian Democracy Party. She served at the Senate and was the first woman to become minister of public education.
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Matteo Biffoni
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Matteo Biffoni is an Italian politician.
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Enrico Ferri
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- politicianmagistrate
- Biography
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Enrico Ferri was an Italian politician and magistrate.
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Giorgio Antonucci
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- poetpsychoanalystphysicianessayist
- Biography
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Giorgio Antonucci was an Italian physician, known for his questioning of the bases of psychiatry.
