100 Notable Alumni of University of Florence [Sorted List]

Michelangelo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1475-1564 (aged 89)
Occupations: general contractorsculptorpainterpoetarchitect
Biography: 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.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1469-1527 (aged 58)
Occupations: political theoristmilitary theoristpoliticianwriterhistorian
Biography: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian 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.

Donatella Versace

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: businesspersonfashion designerdesigner
Biography: 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.

Matteo Renzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: In 1999 studied jurisprudence
Occupations: politician
Biography: Matteo Renzi OMRI 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.

Italo Calvino

Born in: Cuba
Years: 1923-1985 (aged 62)
Occupations: screenwriteressayistnovelistwriterjournalist
Biography: 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).

Oriana Fallaci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2006 (aged 77)
Occupations: war correspondentpartisanpoliticianwriterjournalist
Biography: Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement 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.

Franco Zeffirelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1923-2019 (aged 96)
Occupations: politicianfilm directortheatrical directoractordirector
Biography: Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli OMRI KBE 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.

Nadia Toffa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1979-2019 (aged 40)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: 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.

David Sassoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1956-2022 (aged 66)
Occupations: politicianjournalistnews presenter
Biography: 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.

Indro Montanelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1909-2001 (aged 92)
Occupations: screenwriterwriterfilm directorjournalist
Biography: Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli OMRI 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.

Maria Elena Boschi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1981-.. (age 44)
Occupations: politicianjuristlawyer
Biography: Maria Elena Boschi, is an Italian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.

Margherita Hack

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2013 (aged 91)
Occupations: science communicatorastronomerresearchersecularistnon-fiction writer
Biography: Margherita Hack Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.

Roger Willemsen

Born in: Germany
Years: 1955-2016 (aged 61)
Occupations: man of lettersliterary scholarnews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Roger Willemsen was a German author, essayist and TV presenter.

Giovanni Gentile

Born in: Italy
Years: 1875-1944 (aged 69)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: 1899-1900 studied philosophy
Occupations: pedagogueliterary criticuniversity teacherpoliticianphilosopher
Biography: Giovanni Gentile was an Italian philosopher, pedagogue, and politician.

Ivan Illich

Born in: Austria
Years: 1926-2002 (aged 76)
Occupations: Catholic priestsociologisthistoriantheologianpedagogue
Biography: Ivan Dominic Illich was an Austrian Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that demotivates and alienates individuals from the process of learning. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis, importing to the sociology of medicine the concept of medical harm, argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality of life by overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions. Illich called himself "an errant pilgrim."

Chiara Francini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1976-.. (age 49)
Occupations: actorsinger
Biography: Chiara Francini is an Italian actress and author.

Roscoe Lee Browne

Born in: United States
Years: 1922-2007 (aged 85)
Occupations: film actortelevision actorvoice actorstage actor
Biography: 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 many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s as well as movies like The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne.

Marsilio Ficino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1433-1499 (aged 66)
Occupations: translatorphysicianwriterclericpoet
Biography: 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.

Renzo Montagnani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1930-1997 (aged 67)
Occupations: film actordub actortelevision actorstage actor
Biography: Renzo Montagnani was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Prince Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-2021 (aged 78)
Occupations: entrepreneur
Biography: 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.

Bradford Bishop

Born in: United States
Years: 1936-.. (age 89)
Occupations: diplomatCapturado en Monterrey N.L
Biography: 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.

Pupi Avati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1938-.. (age 87)
Occupations: film directorfilm producerscreenwriterdirectorwriter
Biography: 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).

Michaëlle Jean

Born in: Haiti
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politicianjournalistnews presenter
Biography: Michaëlle Jean PC CC CMM CD FRCPSC is a Canadian former journalist who served as the 27th governor general of Canada from 2005 to 2010. She is the first Haitian Canadian and black person to hold this office.

Dolcenera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1977-.. (age 48)
Occupations: recording artistactorsingercomposersinger-songwriter
Biography: Emanuela Trane, known by her stage name Dolcenera ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌdoltʃeˈneːra], lit. 'Sweet Black'), 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.

Nicola Rizzoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: architectassociation football referee
Biography: 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.

Marco Columbro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 75)
Occupations: stage actortelevision presenteractor
Biography: Marco Columbro is an Italian actor and television host.

Alfonso Bonafede

Born in: Italy
Years: 1976-.. (age 49)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Denis Verdini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: politicianbankereconomist
Biography: Denis Verdini is an Italian politician and banker.

Giovanni Spadolini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-1994 (aged 69)
Occupations: politicianjournalisthistorian
Biography: 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.

Paolo Nespoli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: paratrooperengineerastronautamateur radio operator
Biography: 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.

Giovanni Sartori

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2017 (aged 93)
Occupations: philosopherjournalistpolitical scientistwritersociologist
Biography: Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist who specialized in the study of democracy, political parties, and comparative politics. He held faculty positions at University of Florence, European University Institute, Stanford University and Columbia University.

Lamberto Dini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-.. (age 94)
Occupations: politicianeconomistbankerdiplomat
Biography: 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.

Antonino Caponnetto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-2002 (aged 82)
Occupations: magistratejudge
Biography: Antonino Caponnetto was an Italian Antimafia magistrate.

Giorgio Albertazzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1923-2016 (aged 93)
Occupations: film actorscreenwriterplaywrighttelevision directorstage actor
Biography: Giorgio Albertazzi was an Italian actor and film director.

Agnolo Poliziano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1454-1494 (aged 40)
Occupations: playwrighthumanistpoetwriteruniversity teacher
Biography: 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).

Gaetano Salvemini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1873-1957 (aged 84)
Occupations: politicianacademicuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Agehistorian
Biography: Gaetano Salvemini was an Italian socialist and anti-fascist politician, historian, and writer. Born into a family of modest means, he became a historian of note whose work drew attention in Italy and abroad, particularly in the United States, after he was forced into exile by Benito Mussolini's Italian fascist regime.

Sandro Veronesi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: journalistscreenwriterpoetarchitectwriter
Biography: 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.

Dario Nardella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Dario Nardella is an Italian politician who was the Mayor of Florence from 26 May 2014 to 26 June 2024 and the first Metropolitan Mayor of Florence. 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.

Giorgio La Pira

Born in: Italy
Years: 1904-1977 (aged 73)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: 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.

Elizabeth Bentley

Born in: United States
Years: 1908-1963 (aged 55)
Occupations: double agentspy
Biography: 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.

Fosco Maraini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-2004 (aged 92)
Occupations: photographeranthropologistmountaineerdocumentarianscientist
Biography: Fosco Maraini was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic.

Paolo Poli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2016 (aged 87)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm actorsingerstage actortelevision actor
Biography: Paolo Poli was an Italian theatre actor. He has also acted in films and on television.

Beppe Bigazzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2019 (aged 87)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Giuseppe Bigazzi was an Italian executive, journalist, television presenter and writer. He was a television presenter for the RAI show La prova del cuoco.

Carlo Rosselli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1899-1937 (aged 38)
Occupations: resistance fighterpoliticianwriterjournalistphilosopher
Biography: 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.

Flavio Manzoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: architectcar designer
Biography: Flavio Manzoni is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He has held the position of Chief Design Officer at Ferrari since January 2010, leading the development of many Ferrari models, including the LaFerrari.

Mauro Bolognini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2001 (aged 79)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directortheatrical director
Biography: Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film and stage director.

Roberto Assagioli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1888-1974 (aged 86)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: Studied in 1910
Occupations: psychologistauthorpsychiatrist
Biography: Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis, which is still being developed today by therapists and psychologists who practice the psychological methods and techniques he developed. His work, including two books and many monographs published as pamphlets, emphasized the possibility of progressive integration (that is, synthesis) of the personality.

Mario Luzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1914-2005 (aged 91)
Occupations: politicianwriterplaywrightpoet
Biography: Mario Luzi was an Italian poet.

Eugenio Giani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: Graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
Occupations: writerpoliticianessayist
Biography: Eugenio Giani is an Italian politician.

Giovanni Amendola

Born in: Italy
Years: 1882-1926 (aged 44)
Occupations: politicianjournalistphilosopher
Biography: Giovanni Amendola was an Italian journalist, professor, and politician. He is noted as an opponent of Italian fascism.

Luca Lotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Luca Lotti is an Italian politician who served as the Minister for Sport from 2016 to 2018 in the Gentiloni Cabinet.

Tommaso Landolfi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1908-1979 (aged 71)
Occupations: translatorwriternovelistlinguistcritic
Biography: 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.

Vasco Pratolini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1913-1991 (aged 78)
Occupations: screenwriterwriterpartisanjournalist
Biography: Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Irene Vallejo

Born in: Spain
Years: 1979-.. (age 46)
Occupations: writerphilologist
Biography: Irene Vallejo Moreu, born in Zaragoza in 1979, is a Spanish philologist, historian, and writer.

Ardito Desio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1897-2001 (aged 104)
Occupations: mountaineerexplorercartographergeologist
Biography: Count Ardito Desio was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.

Paolo Hendel

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: actorcomediantelevision actor
Biography: Paolo Hendel is an Italian actor, playwright and comedian.

Lia Quartapelle

Born in: Italy
Years: 1982-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politicianresearchereconomist
Biography: Lia Quartapelle is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD).

Alexander Langer

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-1995 (aged 49)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: In 1968 studied jurisprudence
Occupations: politicianjournalistecologistwritertranslator
Biography: Alexander Langer was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher. After taking part in the Protests of 1968 and garnering regional attention during the 1970s as a peace and environmental activist, in 1978 he became the first New Left candidate to be elected in South Tyrol. During the 1980s, Langer became a national figure as a member of the Federation of the Greens, and was elected to the European Parliament from 1989 until his death in 1995.

Stefano Mancuso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: botanistbiologistneurobiologistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
Biography: Stefano Mancuso is an Italian botanist and writer, best known for his research on plant intelligence. He is professor of the Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry department at his alma mater, the University of Florence. He is the director of the International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology, steering committee member of the Society of Plant Signaling and Behavior, editor-in-chief of the Plant Signaling & Behavior journal and a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili.

Daniele Piombi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1933-2017 (aged 84)
Occupations: radio personalitytelevision presenter
Biography: Daniele Piombi was an Italian television and radio presenter and television writer.

Mario Praz

Born in: Italy
Years: 1896-1982 (aged 86)
Occupations: art collectorart historianwriteruniversity teacherjournalist
Biography: Sir Mario Praz KBE was an Italian 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.

Franco Fortini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1917-1994 (aged 77)
Occupations: politicianscreenwriterliterary criticlinguistuniversity teacher
Biography: Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.

Luciano Lama

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-1996 (aged 75)
Occupations: politiciantrade unionistpartisan
Biography: Luciano Lama was an Italian trade unionist and politician, General Secretary of Italian General Confederation of Labour from 1970 to 1986.

Gabriele Veneziano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-.. (age 83)
Occupations: physicistuniversity teacher
Biography: 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.

Teresa Mattei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-2013 (aged 92)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: Graduated with philosophy
Occupations: resistance fighterwomen's rights activistpoliticianpartisanactivist
Biography: Teresa Mattei, also known as Teresita was an Italian partisan and politician.

Giovanni della Casa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1503-1556 (aged 53)
Occupations: writerpoetpriestdiplomat
Biography: 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."

Riccardo Nencini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: writerpolitician
Biography: Riccardo Nencini is an Italian politician.

Carla Voltolina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-2005 (aged 84)
Occupations: psychologistjournalistpartisan
Biography: 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.

Michele De Lucchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1951-.. (age 74)
Occupations: university teacherdesignerarchitect
Biography: Michele de Lucchi is an Italian architect and designer.

Evan Jenkins

Born in: United States
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politicianlawyerbusinesspersoninstructor
Biography: 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.

Ettore Bernabei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-2016 (aged 95)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Ettore Bernabei was an Italian television director and producer.

Carlo Bo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1911-2001 (aged 90)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherliterary critic
Biography: Carlo Bo was an Italian poet, literary critic, distinguished humanist, professor and senator for life from 1984.

Francesco Milleri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: business executive
Biography: Francesco Milleri is an Italian businessman who has been the CEO of EssilorLuxottica since June 2022. He is also the father of Italian-American DJ and record producer Matteo Milleri.

Carla Lonzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-1982 (aged 51)
Occupations: activistwomen's rights activistopinion journalistart criticwriter
Biography: 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.

Gianfranco Pasquino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1942-.. (age 83)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
Biography: Gianfranco Pasquino is an Italian political scientist.

Eugenio Pio Zolli

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1881-1956 (aged 75)
Occupations: rabbi
Biography: 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'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.

Elisabetta Gualmini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Occupations: politicianpolitical scientist
Biography: Elisabetta Gualmini is an Italian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

Elena Linari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1994-.. (age 31)
Occupations: association football player
Biography: 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.

Deborah Bergamini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Deborah Bergamini is an Italian politician, manager and journalist currently member of the Italian Parliament.

Franco Scaglione

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-1993 (aged 77)
Occupations: designer
Biography: Franco Scaglione was an Italian automobile coachwork designer.

Jerónimo Saavedra

Born in: Spain
Years: 1936-2023 (aged 87)
Occupations: politiciantrade unionistacademiclawyer
Biography: 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.

Benedetto Castelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1578-1643 (aged 65)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: Studied in 1611-1613
Occupations: astronomeruniversity teacherphysicistmonkmathematician
Biography: Benedetto Castelli O.S.B., born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595.

Umberto Cassuto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1883-1951 (aged 68)
Occupations: university teacherhistorianrabbi
Biography: 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.

Francesco Carofiglio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: writerarchitect
Biography: 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.

Giuseppe Ferrara

Born in: Italy
Years: 1932-2016 (aged 84)
Occupations: screenwriterwriterfilm screenwriterfilm producerfilm director
Biography: Giuseppe Ferrara was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-1984 (aged 64)
Occupations: politicianpartisan
Biography: 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.

Monica Frassoni

Born in: Mexico
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Mario Occhiuto

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: architectpolitician
Biography: Mario Occhiuto, is an Italian politician and architect.

Francesco Bonifazi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1976-.. (age 49)
Occupations: politician
Biography: 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.

Christian Wolff

Born in: France
Years: 1934-.. (age 91)
Occupations: philologistmusic educatorcomposerclassical scholarteacher
Biography: Christian G. Wolff is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist.

Scipio Slataper

Born in: Italy
Years: 1888-1915 (aged 27)
Occupations: writer
Biography: 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.

Massimo Bray

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: publisherpoliticianhistorian
Biography: Massimo Bray is an Italian publisher, politician, and historian. He served as the minister of cultural heritage and tourism in the Letta government from 28 April 2013 to 22 February 2014. He is currently the general manager of the Treccani Institute.

David Ermini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: David Ermini is an Italian lawyer and politician, vice president of the High Council of the Judiciary from 2018 to 2023.

Giuseppe Occhialini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1907-1993 (aged 86)
Occupations: physicist
Biography: 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.

Fiamma Nirenstein

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 80)
Occupations: politicianwriterhistorianjournalistblogger
Biography: 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.

Marco Tarchi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Enrolled in the University of Florence: In 1987 graduated with doctorate in political science; Graduated with licentiate in political science
Occupations: political scientist
Biography: 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 the extreme right.

Marta Dassù

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: political scientisttennis playeressayistpoliticianhistorian
Biography: 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.

Konstantinos Tsaldaris

Born in: Egypt
Years: 1884-1970 (aged 86)
Occupations: lawyerpolitician
Biography: Konstantinos Tsaldaris was a Greek politician and twice Prime Minister of Greece.

Philip Mazzei

Born in: Italy
Years: 1730-1816 (aged 86)
Occupations: philosopherphysicianwriterdiplomat
Biography: Filippo Mazzei, also known in English as Philip Mazzei and sometimes erroneously cited as Philip Mazzie, was an Italian physician, philosopher, diplomat, winemaker, merchant, and author. A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, he was a strong supporter of the American Revolution and the American colonies' war for independence from Britain.

Giani Stuparich

Born in: Italy
Years: 1891-1961 (aged 70)
Occupations: pedagoguepartisannovelistwriterjournalist
Biography: 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").