100 Notable alumni of
University of Pavia
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The University of Pavia is 369th in the world, 129th in Europe, and 11th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Pavia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Pavia won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Maria De Filippi
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Maria De Filippi is an Italian television host and the owner of the television production company Fascino PGT. She is regarded as one of the most popular presenters in Italy.
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Sixtus IV
- Occupations
- Catholic priest
- Biography
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Pope Sixtus IV was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 August 1471 to his death, in August 1484. His accomplishments as pope included the construction of the Sistine Chapel and the creation of the Vatican Library. A patron of the arts, he brought together the group of artists who ushered the Early Renaissance into Rome with the first masterpieces of the city's new artistic age.
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Cesare Beccaria
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- juristcriminologisteconomistphilosopher
- Biography
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Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist and politician, who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise On Crimes and Punishments (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the Classical School of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.
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Lucia Azzolina
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Lucia Azzolina is an Italian politician and teacher. She was the Minister of Education during the Conte II Cabinet.
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Carlo Goldoni
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- translatorwriterlibrettistdirectorpoet lawyer
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade, which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
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Charles Borromeo
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- inquisitorCatholic priestpriestpreacherarchbishop
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Charles Borromeo was the Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584 and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation combat against the Protestant Reformation together with Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri. In that role he was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. He is honoured as a saint by the Catholic Church, with a feast day on 4 November.
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Gerolamo Cardano
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- astrologerphysicianinventorengineermathematician
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Gerolamo Cardano was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler. He became one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance and one of the key figures in the foundation of probability; he introduced the binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem in the Western world. He wrote more than 200 works on science.
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Umberto Bossi
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- politician
- Biography
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Umberto Bossi is an Italian politician and former leader of Lega Nord (Northern League), a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to the Sicilian Manuela Marrone, and has four sons, of whom one was from his first wife.
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Camillo Golgi
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- 1860-1865 graduated with laurea in medicine
- Occupations
- scientistprofessorneurologistanatomistcell biologist
- Biography
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Camillo Golgi was an Italian biologist and pathologist known for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia (where he later spent most of his professional career) between 1860 and 1868 under the tutelage of Cesare Lombroso. Inspired by pathologist Giulio Bizzozero, he pursued research in the nervous system. His discovery of a staining technique called black reaction (sometimes called Golgi's method or Golgi's staining in his honour) in 1873 was a major breakthrough in neuroscience. Several structures and phenomena in anatomy and physiology are named for him, including the Golgi apparatus, the Golgi tendon organ and the Golgi tendon reflex.
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Umberto Veronesi
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- surgeonpoliticianoncologist
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Umberto Veronesi was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years.
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Dionysios Solomos
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- In 1817 studied law
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían), which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. He is considered the national poet of Greece, not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός (The Cretan), Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι (The Free Besieged). A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.
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Lorenzo Valla
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- writeruniversity teacherLatin Catholic priestphilosopherphilologist
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Lorenzo Valla was an Italian Renaissance humanist, rhetorician, educator and scholar. He is best known for his historical-critical textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the papacy. Lorenzo is sometimes seen as a precursor of the Reformation.
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Giulio Tremonti
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- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Giulio Tremonti is an Italian politician. He served in the government of Italy as Minister of Economy and Finance under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2004, from 2005 to 2006, and from 2008 to 2011.
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Gianni Brera
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- journalistpartisanwritertelevision personality
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Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.
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Gregory XIV
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- politicianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Pope Gregory XIV, born Niccolò Sfondrato or Sfondrati, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 December 1590 to his death, in October 1591.
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Emanuele Severino
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- philosopheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Emanuele Severino was an Italian philosopher.
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Beppe Severgnini
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- journalistwriterradio personalitypoet lawyer
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Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini OBE, Commendatore OMRI is an Italian journalist, essayist and columnist.
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Elena Bonetti
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- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Elena Bonetti is an Italian politician and mathematician who served as Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities between 2019 and 2022.
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Carlo Cattaneo
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- academichistorianwriterpatriotlinguist
- Biography
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Carlo Cattaneo was an Italian philosopher, writer, and activist, famous for his role in the Five Days of Milan in March 1848, when he led the city council during the rebellion.
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Ippolito Nievo
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- writerscience fiction writerpoetGaribaldinojournalist
- Biography
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Ippolito Nievo was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His Confessions of an Italian is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian Risorgimento.
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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- biologistuniversity teacherpopulation geneticistgeneticistanthropologist
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.
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Agostino Gemelli
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- physicianreligious
- Biography
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Agostino Gemelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first Rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) of Milan.
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Francesco Alberoni
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- journalistwritersociologist
- Biography
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Francesco Alberoni was an Italian journalist and a professor of sociology. He was a board member and senior board member (chairman) of RAI, the Italian state television network, from 2002 to 2005.
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Gian Marco Centinaio
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- politician
- Biography
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Gian Marco Centinaio is an Italian politician for Lega, serving as Vice President of the Senate of the Republic. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Tourism in the Conte Cabinet from 1 June 2018 to September 2019.
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Alberto Arbasino
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- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Nino Alberto Arbasino was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.
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Lia Quartapelle
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- In 2012 graduated with Doctor of Theology in development economics
- Occupations
- researcherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Lia Quartapelle is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party (PD).
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Giuseppe Zanardelli
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Giuseppe Zanardelli was an Italian jurist and political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 15 February 1901 to 3 November 1903. An eloquent orator, he was also a Grand Master freemason. Zanardelli, representing the bourgeoisie from Lombardy, personified the classical 19th-century liberalism, committed to suffrage expansion, anticlericalism, civil liberties, free trade and laissez-faire economics. Throughout his long political career, he was among the most ardent advocates of freedom of conscience and divorce.
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Alberto Mantovani
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- physicianimmunologistoncologist
- Biography
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Alberto Mantovani is an Italian physician and immunologist. He is Scientific Director of Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Humanitas Clinical and Research Center), President and Founder of the Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, and Professor of Pathology at the State University of Milan. He is known for his works in the roles of the immune system in the development of cancer. His research on tumor-associated macrophages (TAM, an acronym he coined) established inflammation as one of the causes of cancer. He was the first to identify monocyte chemotactic protein - 1 / CCL2 in 1983, and PTX3 in 1997. His works revealed the existence of decoy receptors in cell-signalling. He has been the most cited scientist in Italy, and one of the ten most cited immunologists worldwide.
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Giorgio La Malfa
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- ministerpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Giorgio La Malfa is an Italian politician.
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Mino Martinazzoli
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Fermo "Mino" Martinazzoli was an Italian lawyer, politician and former minister. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy party and the first secretary of the Italian People's Party founded in 1994.
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Paolo Mantegazza
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- neurologistscience fiction writerphysician writeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Paolo Mantegazza was an Italian neurologist, physiologist, and anthropologist, noted for his experimental investigation of coca leaves into its effects on the human psyche. He was also an author of fiction.
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Felice Cavallotti
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- writerpoliticianpoetplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Felice Cavallotti was an Italian politician, poet and dramatic author.
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Benedetto Cairoli
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Benedetto Cairoli was an Italian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Italy for 2 years.
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Virginio Rognoni
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Virginio Rognoni was an Italian politician, who was a prominent member of Christian Democracy. He was several times Interior Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Justice. From 2002 to 2006 he was vice-president of the High Council of the Judiciary.
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Christian Greco
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- egyptologistarchaeologistcoptologist
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Christian Greco is an Italian Egyptologist. Since 2014, he has been the director of Museo Egizio at Torino.
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Pellegrino Rossi
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- juristeconomistpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Pellegrino Luigi Odoardo Rossi was an Italian economist, politician and jurist. He was an important figure of the July Monarchy in France, and the minister of justice in the government of the Papal States, under Pope Pius IX.
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Sergio Bardotti
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- singer-songwriterlyricistrecord producersinger
- Biography
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Sergio Bardotti was an Italian lyricist, composer and record producer.
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Alessandro Cattaneo
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- politician
- Biography
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Alessandro Cattaneo is an Italian politician. He is a member of the centre-right party Forza Italia and served as Mayor of Pavia from June 2009 to May 2014.
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Gianfranco Contini
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Studied in 1933
- Occupations
- partisanphilologistliterary criticlinguistromanist
- Biography
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Gianfranco Contini was an Italian academic and philologist.
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Willibald Pirckheimer
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Studied in 1488-1495
- Occupations
- politicianwriterjurist
- Biography
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Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, imperial counsellor and a member of the governing City Council for two periods. One of the most important cultural patrons of Germany in his own right, he was the closest friend of the artist Albrecht Dürer, who made a number of portraits of him, and a close friend of the great humanist and theologian Erasmus.
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Temistocle Solera
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- librettistcomposerpoet
- Biography
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Temistocle Solera was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
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Eugenio Beltrami
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Studied in 1853-1856
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherpoliticianmathematiciansurveyor
- Biography
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Eugenio Beltrami was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. He was the first to prove consistency of non-Euclidean geometry by modeling it on a surface of constant curvature, the pseudosphere, and in the interior of an n-dimensional unit sphere, the so-called Beltrami–Klein model. He also developed singular value decomposition for matrices, which has been subsequently rediscovered several times. Beltrami's use of differential calculus for problems of mathematical physics indirectly influenced development of tensor calculus by Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro and Tullio Levi-Civita.
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Anthony Maria Zaccaria
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- physician
- Biography
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Anthony Maria Zaccaria, CRSP was an early leader of the Counter Reformation, the founder of religious orders (Barnabites) and a promoter of the devotion to the Passion of Christ, the Eucharist and the renewal of the religious life among the laity. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, which celebrates his feast day on 5 July.
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Franco Tatò
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- politicianmanager
- Biography
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Francesco Tatò was an Italian businessman. He was known as "Kaiser Franz" for the tough management methods he used to achieve economic turnarounds at the companies where he was appointed CEO. He was married to Italian writer and television author and producer Sonia Raule.
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Lelio Basso
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- journalistlawyeranti-fascistpolitician
- Biography
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Lelio Basso was an Italian democratic socialist politician, political scientist and journalist.
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Mino Milani
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- comics creatorhistoriancomics artistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Mino Milani was an Italian writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian. During his career he also used several pseudonyms, including Stelio Martelli, Eugenio Ventura, Piero Selva, Mungo Graham Alcesti and T. Maggio.
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Giovanni Battista Grassi
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- parasitologistuniversity teacherzoologistentomologistbotanist
- Biography
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Giovanni Battista Grassi was an Italian physician and zoologist, best known for his pioneering works on parasitology, especially on malariology. He was Professor of Comparative Zoology at the University of Catania from 1883, and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1895 until his death. His first major research on the taxonomy and biology of termites earned him the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1896.
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Joseph M. Young
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Joseph M. Young is an American diplomat who served as the chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy Tokyo from July 22, 2019, to June 17, 2021, after the resignation of Bill Hagerty. Young is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service and served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2017 to 2019, and as the Director for Japanese Affairs at the United States Department of State from 2012 to 2014.
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Giovanni Muzio
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- architect
- Biography
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Giovanni Muzio was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan. He was closely associated with the Novecento Italiano artists group.
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Agostino Bassi
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- entomologistbotanist
- Biography
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Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only animal (insect), but also human diseases are caused by other living microorganisms; for example, measles, syphilis, and the plague.
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Eduard Rüppell
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- numismatistnaturalistbotanistornithologistexplorer
- Biography
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Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell was a German naturalist and explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from Africa and Arabia.
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Tommaso Grossi
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- poetwriternotarypoet lawyer
- Biography
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Tommaso Grossi was an Italian poet and novelist.
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Francesco Forte
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- journalisteconomistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Francesco Forte was an Italian politician, academic and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party.
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Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli Calvino
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- mycologistuniversity teachernaturalistbotanistjournalist
- Biography
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Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli, was an Italian botanist, and naturalist.
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Simion Bărnuţiu
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopherjournalist
- Biography
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Simion Bărnuțiu was a Transylvanian, later Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihăileană and at the University of Iași.
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Ezio Vanoni
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ezio Vanoni was an Italian economist and politician who served as Minister of Finance from May 1948 to January 1954 and Minister Budget from January 1954 until February 1956.
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Francesco Viganò
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Francesco Viganò is an Italian judge and criminal law professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. He was appointed Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy by president Sergio Mattarella, and sworn in on 8 March 2018.
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Giuseppe Acerbi
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- composerwritergeographerbotanistdiplomat
- Biography
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Giuseppe Acerbi was an Italian naturalist, explorer and composer.
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Luigi Cremona
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- politicianprofessormathematician
- Biography
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Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona was an Italian mathematician. His life was devoted to the study of geometry and reforming advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. He worked on algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces, particularly through his paper Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane ("Introduction to a geometrical theory of the plane curves"), and was a founder of the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
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Carlo Forlanini
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- university teacherpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Carlo Forlanini was a medical doctor and professor at the Universities of Turin and Pavia. He was also the inventor of artificial pneumothorax, which was the primary treatment method of pulmonary tuberculosis for the first half of the 20th century and remained in use for severe cases of tuberculosis into the 1970s.
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Daniele D'Anza
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- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Daniele D'Anza was an Italian director, playwright and screenwriter.
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Alfio Quarteroni
- Enrolled in the University of Pavia
- Studied in 1975-1979
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Alfio Quarteroni is an Italian mathematician.
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Paolo Gorini
- Occupations
- geologistmathematician
- Biography
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Paolo Gorini was an Italian mathematician, professor, scientist, and politician renowned as a pioneer of cremation in Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom.
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Sergio DellaPergola
- Occupations
- statisticiandemographer
- Biography
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Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician. He is a professor and demographic expert, specifically in demography and statistics related to the Jewish population.
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Giuseppe Prina
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Count Giuseppe Prina was an Italian statesman killed in the Milan riots of 1814.
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Andrea Moro
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Andrea Carlo Moro is an Italian linguist, neuroscientist and novelist.
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Francesco Brioschi
- Occupations
- mathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacherprofessor
- Biography
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Francesco Brioschi was an Italian mathematician.
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Giuseppe Ferrari
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterhistorian of Modern Agehistorianpolitician
- Biography
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Giuseppe Ferrari was an Italian philosopher, historian and politician.
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Henri Cernuschi
- Occupations
- businesspersoneconomistbankerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Henri Cernuschi was a major French-Italian banker, economist and Asian art collector, who began public life as a politician in Italy in 1848–1850.
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Andrea Maffei
- Occupations
- translatorwriterpoetlibrettistlinguist
- Biography
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Andrea Maffei was an Italian poet, translator and librettist. He was born in Molina di Ledro, Trentino. A follower of Vincenzo Monti, he formed part of the 19th-century Italian classicist literary culture. Gaining laurea in jurisprudence, he moved for some years to Verona, then to Venice and finally to Milan, where in 1831 he married contessa Clara Spinelli. They separated by mutual consent on 15 June 1846.
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Gabriele Mandel
- Occupations
- archaeologistwriterpsychotherapisttranslatorpsychologist
- Biography
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Gabriele Mandel was an Italian islamist, psychologist, writer, and artist of Afghan descent. He was also known by the names of Gabriele Mandel Khān and Gabriele Sugana. He was also a Sufi guide (shaikh) in the Jerrahi Order
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Mario Vegetti
- Occupations
- translatormedical historianphilosopherphilosophy historian
- Biography
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Mario Vegetti was an Italian historian of philosophy.
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Giulio Bizzozero
- Occupations
- pathologistpoliticianuniversity teacherphysiciananatomist
- Biography
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Giulio Bizzozero was an Italian doctor and medical researcher. He was a pioneer of histology and is credited with the coining of the term platelets and identifying their function in coagulation.
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Gianluca Galimberti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gianluca Galimberti is an Italian professor and politician.
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Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse was an Italian journalist and politician.
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Barthélemy de Chasseneuz
- Years
- 1480-1541 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- juristlawyer
- Biography
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Barthélemy de Chasseneuz was a French jurist. His name has also been recorded as Cassaneus Bertalan, Bartholomaeus Cassaneus, Bartholomäus Cassaneus, Barthelemy de Chassenée, de Chassaneo, Bartholm Chasseneux, Chassanæus, Chassanaeus, Hassanaus, or Bartholomew Cassaneus.
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Vittorio Erspamer
- Occupations
- pharmacologistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Vittorio Erspamer was an Italian pharmacologist and chemist, known for the identification, synthesis and pharmacological studies of more than sixty new chemical compounds, most notably serotonin and octopamine.
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Contardo Ferrini
- Occupations
- priestuniversity teacherjurist
- Biography
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Contardo Ferrini was a noted Italian jurist and legal scholar. He was also a fervent Roman Catholic, who lived a devout life of prayer and service to the poor. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
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Agostino Bertani
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Agostino Bertani was an Italian revolutionary and physician during Italian unification.
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Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti
- Occupations
- anatomistphysicianscientist
- Biography
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Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti was an Italian anatomist. He was born in Gambarana, near Pavia in 1822.
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Maffeo Vegio
- Occupations
- archaeologisttranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Maffeo Vegio was an Italian poet who wrote in Latin; he is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth century.
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Rodolfo Morandi
- Occupations
- partisanpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Rodolfo Morandi was an Italian socialist politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party and was one of its leading figures following World War II. He served as the minister of industry and commerce in the cabinets led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi in the period 1946–1947.
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Monica Boggioni
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Monica Boggioni is an Italian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning bronze medals in the 100 metre freestyle S5, and 200 metre freestyle S5.
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Elio Veltri
- Occupations
- physicianjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Cornelio "Elio" Veltri is an Italian journalist and politician. He has been an author of several books and reports about illegality in the Italian economical and political world.
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Andrea Beltratti
- Occupations
- managereconomistuniversity teacherbanker
- Biography
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Andrea Beltratti is professor at Bocconi University, director of the Executive Master in Finance - EMF at SDA Bocconi School of Management and Chairman of Eurizon Capital. He has been Chairman of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo until May 2013.
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Manfredi Rizza
- Occupations
- kayaker
- Biography
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Manfredi "Mampe" Rizza is an Italian canoeist. He finished sixth in the K-1 200 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in Men's K-1 200 metres, at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Fabio Pusterla
- Occupations
- literary criticpoettranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Fabio Pusterla is a Swiss translator and writer in Italian.
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Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli
- Occupations
- inventorphysicianchemistprofessor
- Biography
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Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli was an Italian chemist and inventor who discovered the process for electroplating in 1805.
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Stefano Jacini
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Count Stefano Jacini was an Italian statesman and economist.
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Adelchi Negri
- Occupations
- pathologistphysicianuniversity teachermicrobiologist
- Biography
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Adelchi Negri was an Italian pathologist and microbiologist born in Perugia.
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Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti
- Occupations
- physicistpoliticianastronomermathematiciantheoretical physicist
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Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti was an Italian physicist who was exiled from Italy for his liberal ideas. During the First Italian War of Independence he led a "battalion of students," part of a delegation from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He later taught astronomy and physics at the University of Buenos Aires. His name is associated with a type of multiple-element lens for correcting spherical aberration and coma, but not chromatic aberration. His studies on dielectrics led to important results: the Clausius-Mossotti formula is partly named after him, and his views on dielectric behavior helped lead James Clerk Maxwell to devise his theory of the displacement current, which led in turn to the theoretical prediction of electromagnetic waves.
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Edoardo Bassini
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- physiciansurgeonpolitician
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Edoardo Bassini was an Italian surgeon born in Pavia.
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Antonio Greppi
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- dramaturgewriterjuristplaywrightpolitician
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Antonio Greppi was an Italian writer, politician and dramaturge who served as Mayor of Milan from 1945 to 1951. He was the first mayor of Milan after its liberation in April 1945.
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Giorgio Biandrata
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- physician
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Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came from the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was a Unitarian.
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Gaspare Aselli
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- anatomistsurgeonphysician
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Gaspare Aselli was an Italian physician noted for the discovery of the lacteal vessels of the lymphatic system. Aselli discovered (or rediscovered) the chylous vessels, and studied systematically the significance of these vascular structures.
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Marcello Candia
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- missionary
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Marcello Candia was an Italian Roman Catholic industrialist and entrepreneur who became active in the missions in Brazil. He worked to protect Jewish people during World War II and was involved in preventing their deportation by the creation of new documents that would save the Italian Jews' lives by making pass them as non-Jewish Italians, in particular for kids by hiding them in homes and industries or helping them to safety relocate to the UK or America. In 1950, at his father's death and at the end of WWII, Marcello Candia assumed full management of his family chemical industrial factory headquartered in Milan with full control of its operation across Italy. After experiencing the world devastation of WWII, Marcello developed a deep awareness for the plight of the poor people, concern that prompted him to sell his factory in 1964 (creating a rift with his younger brother Riccardo) and moved to Brazil to assist the people in need living in the Amazons. In Brazil he worked for the needs of the poor, supporting social justice initiatives and the work of the local charities. Candia was subject to suspicion in the beginning from those missionaries who were confused at someone from a rich background coming to serve the poor as a poor man. He shrugged off those suspicions and considered himself a disciple of the poor who wished to alleviate their suffering and social conditions.
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Gasparinus de Bergamo
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- linguist
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Gasparino Barzizza was an Italian grammarian and teacher noted for introducing a new style of epistolary Latin inspired by the works of Cicero.
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Achille Loria
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- economistpoliticianteacher
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Achille Loria was an Italian political economist.
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Joseph Frank
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- physicianuniversity teacher
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Joseph Frank was a German physician.
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Thomas Basin
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- historianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Thomas Basin was a French bishop of Lisieux and historian.
