100 Notable alumni of
University of Turin
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The University of Turin is 133rd in the world, 47th in Europe, and 4th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Turin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Giorgio Chiellini
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- association football coachsports commentatorlawyerassociation football player
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Giorgio Chiellini Official OMRI is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or left-back. Considered one of the best defenders of all time, Chiellini was known for his strength, aggressiveness, man-marking, and ability to play in either a three or four-man defense.
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Umberto Eco
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- In 1954 graduated with laurea in philosophy
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- literary criticsemioticianliterary scholarhistorianpedagogue
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Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.
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Erasmus
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- philosopheruniversity teacherBible translatorpedagoguelatinist
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Christian theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
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Antonio Gramsci
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- Studied philology
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- writerhistorianphilosophersociologisteconomist
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Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937.
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Primo Levi
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- politicianwriterscience fiction writerphilosophertranslator
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Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man (Se questo è un uomo, 1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
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Gianni Agnelli
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- politicianentrepreneurbusiness magnateengineerbusinessperson
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Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, nicknamed L'Avvocato ('The Lawyer'), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. He was the richest man in modern Italian history.
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Italo Calvino
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- screenwriteressayistnovelistwriterjournalist
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Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. 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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Rita Levi-Montalcini
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- scientistbiochemistneuroscientistneurologistpolitician
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Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
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Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples
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- entrepreneur
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Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Prince of Naples, was son of Umberto II, the last King of Italy, and Marie-José of Belgium. Vittorio Emanuele also used the title Duke of Savoy and claimed the headship of the House of Savoy. These claims were disputed by supporters of his third cousin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, and later by Amedeo's son, Aimone.
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Cesare Lombroso
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- criminologistwriteruniversity teacheressayistpsychiatrist
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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian eugenicist, criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian school of criminology. He is considered the founder of modern criminology by changing the Western notions of individual responsibility.
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Luca Argentero
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- television presenteractormodel
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Luca Argentero is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 18 films since 2006.
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Cesare Pavese
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- 1926-1930 graduated with licentiate in English studies
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- biographerliterary editorwriterlinguistscreenwriter
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Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
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Lidia Poët
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- lawyer
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Lidia Poët was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.
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Amedeo Avogadro
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- university teacherchemistphysicist
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Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the ratio of the number of elementary entities (atoms, molecules, ions or other particles) in a substance to its amount of substance (the latter having the unit mole), 6.02214076×10 mol, is known as the Avogadro constant. This constant is denoted NA, and is one of the seven defining constants of the SI.
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- Studied in 1754
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- writerastronomeruniversity teachermathematicianpolitician
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian and naturalized French mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
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Palmiro Togliatti
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- politicianphilosopher
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Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman, who led Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore ("the Best"). In 1930, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Upon his death, a Soviet city was named after him. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic, he led Italy's Communist party from a few thousand members in 1943 to two million members in 1946.
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Giovanni Giolitti
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- statespersonpolitician
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Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in Italian history, and the second-longest serving overall after Benito Mussolini. A prominent leader of the Historical Left and the Liberals, he is widely considered one of the most wealthy, powerful and important politicians in Italian history; due to his dominant position in Italian politics, Giolitti was accused by critics of being an authoritarian leader and a parliamentary dictator.
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Alessandro Barbero
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- Studied in 1981
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- television presenteruniversity teacherwriterhistorianmedievalist
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Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian and writer, especially essayist.
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Alessandro Baricco
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- film directorwriterplaywrightmusicologistscreenwriter
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Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages.
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Marco Travaglio
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- journalistwriter
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Marco Travaglio is an Italian journalist, writer, and pundit. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. Travaglio began his journalistic career in the late 1980s under Indro Montanelli at Il Giornale and La Voce, then in the 2000s worked at La Repubblica and L'Unità, before becoming one of the founders of Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2009. He is also the author of many books and a columnist for several other national newspapers and magazines, his main interests have been judicial reporting and current affairs and politics, dealing with issues ranging from the fight against the Italian Mafia to corruption.
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Joseph de Maistre
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- lawyerwriterphilosopherpoliticianhistorian
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Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre was a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, and political philosopher. He is chiefly remembered as one of the intellectual forefathers of modern conservatism.
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Luciana Littizzetto
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- television presenteractorpresenterwriterteacher
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Luciana Littizzetto is an Italian comedy actress, shock jock and humor writer.
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Daniela Santanchè
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- politician
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Daniela Garnero, commonly known by her former married name as Daniela Santanchè ( Italian pronunciation: [daˈnjɛːla santaŋˈkɛ]), is an Italian politician. Between 2010 and 2011 she served as Undersecretary to the Ministry for the Implementation of the Government Program in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. She is currently the regional coordinator of Brothers of Italy in Lombardy and the Minister of Tourism in the Meloni Cabinet.
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Luigi Einaudi
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- economistlawyerprofessorpoliticianjournalist
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Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.
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Umberto Agnelli
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- engineerbusinesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
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Umberto Agnelli was an Italian industrialist and politician. He was the third son of Virginia (born Donna Virginia Bourbon del Monte) and Edoardo Agnelli, and the youngest brother of Gianni Agnelli.
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Roberto Vannacci
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- military personnelwriterpolitician
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Roberto Vannacci is a politician and former Italian Army military general. Since July 2024, he has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament; elected for the League, in February 2026 he founded his own political party, National Future.
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Francesco Molinari
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- golfer
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Francesco Molinari is an Italian professional golfer. He won the 2018 Open Championship, his first and only major victory, and the first major won by an Italian professional golfer. The Open Championship win capped a successful season in which he won the 2018 BMW PGA Championship, his fifth win on the European Tour, and the Quicken Loans National, his first PGA Tour win. At the end of the season, Molinari won 5 out of 5 points as Europe won the 2018 Ryder Cup.
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Giuseppe Saragat
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- diplomatpolitician
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Giuseppe Saragat was an Italian politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1964 to 1971.
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Raf Vallone
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- association football playerstage actorpartisanjournalistfilm actor
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Raffaele "Raf" Vallone was an Italian actor and footballer. One of the top male Italian stars of the 1950s and 1960s, he first became known for his association with the neorealist movement, and found success in several international productions. On stage, he was closely associated with the works of Arthur Miller. He played the role of Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge several times, including Sidney Lumet's 1962 film adaptation, for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Actor.
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Norberto Bobbio
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- university teacherhistorianwriterphilosopherpolitical scientist
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Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa. Bobbio was a social liberal in the tradition of Piero Gobetti, Carlo Rosselli, Guido Calogero, and Aldo Capitini. He was also strongly influenced by Hans Kelsen and Vilfredo Pareto. He was considered one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of the 20th century.
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Alice Rohrwacher
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriterfilm editor
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Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter. She made her directorial debut with Heavenly Body (2011) and gained international attention with The Wonders (2014), which won the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival). She received further acclaim for Happy as Lazzaro (2018), winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, and for La chimera (2023), which competed for the Palme d'Or. Her short film Le pupille (2022) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In 2026, she will receive the European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award.
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Valeria Solarino
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- actorfilm actor
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Valeria Solarino is an Italian actress.
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Carlo Levi
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- painterjournalistscreenwriterphysicianpolitician
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Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.
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Oscar Farinetti
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- entrepreneur
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Natale Oscar Farinetti, is an Italian businessman and investor. Farinetti was the owner of the high-end Italian food mall chain Eataly and founder of the consumer electronics chain UniEuro.
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Massimo Gramellini
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- writeressayistjournalisttelevision presenter
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Massimo Gramellini is an Italian writer and journalist working at Corriere della Sera.
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Carlo Maria Martini
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- Catholic priesttheologianbiblical scholaruniversity teacherCatholic deacon
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Carlo Maria Martini SJ was an Italian Jesuit and Biblical scholar. He served as Archbishop of Milan from 1980 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983.
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Marco Rizzo
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- politician
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Marco Rizzo is an Italian politician, who serves as leader of Sovereign Popular Democracy (DSP) since 2023. From 2009 to 2023, Rizzo also served as general secretary of the Communist Party (PC).
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Gustavo Adolfo Rol
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- psychic
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Gustavo Adolfo Rol was an Italian parapsychologist and painter. His devotees consider him to have been a great spiritual master and have testified to miraculous feats he supposedly accomplished.
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Héctor Abad Faciolince
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- translatorliterary criticjournalistwriter
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Héctor Abad Faciolince is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor who also holds Spanish citizenship. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novel Angosta and, more recently, El Olvido que Seremos (t. Oblivion: A Memoir).
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Gianni Vattimo
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- writerphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
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Gianteresio Vattimo was an Italian philosopher and politician.
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Edoardo Agnelli
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- entrepreneur
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Edoardo Agnelli was an Italian entrepreneur and industrialist. He was the principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat S.p.A., as well as chairman of Juventus from 1923 until his death in 1935.
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Piergiorgio Odifreddi
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- historian of scienceuniversity teacherlogicianmathematicianscience communicator
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Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
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Giuseppe Peano
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- Studied in 1876-1880
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- mathematicianphilosopherlinguistuniversity teacher
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Giuseppe Peano was an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation, for instance, notations of set operations. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named the Peano axioms in his honor. As part of this effort, he made key contributions to the modern rigorous and systematic treatment of the method of mathematical induction. He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin. He also created an international auxiliary language, Latino sine flexione ("Latin without inflections"), which is a simplified version of Classical Latin. Most of his books and papers are in Latino sine flexione, while others are in Italian.
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Silvana De Mari
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- surgeonphysician writerwriterbloggerchildren's writer
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Silvana De Mari is an Italian writer of children's fiction and a struck off surgeon and psychotherapist. She is also known as the author of L'ultimo Elfo (2004), an award-winning fantasy novel published in English and 18 other languages (UK The Last Elf, US The Last Dragon). The book won the Italian prizes Premio Bancarellino and Premio Andersen. In France, it won the Prix Imaginales in 2005.
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Beppe Fenoglio
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- partisanwritertranslator
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Giuseppe "Beppe" Fenoglio was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe, where he was born and raised, and the Italian resistance movement, both largely inspired by his own personal experiences in them; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos.
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Paolo Giordano
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- writernovelistphysicistscreenwriter
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Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
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Susanna Agnelli
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- writerentrepreneurmemoiristphilanthropistpolitician
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Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, was an Italian politician, businesswoman, and writer. Involved in Italian politics for over twenty years, she was the first woman to be appointed Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was also the first Italian minister to be Minister of Foreign Affairs and undersecretary of the same ministry.
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Franco Cristaldi
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- producerfilm producer
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Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Luigi Facta
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- journalistpolitician
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Luigi Facta was an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist and the last prime minister of Italy before the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.
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Claudio Magris
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- germanistjournalistwritertranslatornovelist
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Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.
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Luisella Costamagna
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Luisella Costamagna is an Italian journalist and television presenter.
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Gustavo Zagrebelsky
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- juristlawyerjudgepolitician
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Gustavo Zagrebelsky is an Italian judge and constitutionalist.
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Elsa Fornero
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherminister
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Elsa Fornero is an Italian economist, university lecturer, and politician who served as Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Monti Cabinet from November 2011 to April 2013.
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Ferruccio Parri
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- partisanpoliticianjournalist
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Ferruccio Parri was an Italian partisan and anti-fascist politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of Italy, and the first to be appointed after the end of World War II in Europe. During the war, he was also known by his nom de guerre Maurizio.
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Massimo d'Azeglio
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- painterwriterpoliticianshort story writerhistorian
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Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio, commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio ( Italian: [ˈmassimo tapaˈrɛlli dadˈdzeʎʎo]), was a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist, and painter. He was Prime Minister of Sardinia for almost three years until succeeded by his rival Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour. A moderate liberal and member of the Moderate Party associated with the Historical Right, d'Azeglio hoped for a federal union between Italian states.
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Giovanni Goria
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- politicianeconomist
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Giovanni Giuseppe Goria was an Italian politician. He served as the 46th prime minister of Italy from 1987 until 1988.
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Piero Fassino
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- politician
- Biography
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Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino is an Italian politician. He was Mayor of Turin from 2011 until 2016.
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Piero Gobetti
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- writertranslatorphilosopherpoliticiananti-fascist
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Piero Gobetti was an Italian journalist, intellectual, and anti-fascist. A radical and revolutionary liberal, he was an exceptionally active campaigner and critic in the crisis years in Italy after the First World War and into the early years of Fascist Italy.
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Guido Gozzano
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- screenwriterwriterscience fiction writerchildren's writerpoet
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Guido Gustavo Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer.
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Evelina Christillin
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- association football coachbusinesspersonmanager
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Evelina Maria Augusta Christillin is an Italian sports manager. She has been a member of the FIFA Council since 14 September 2016.
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Fernanda Pivano
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- scholar of Englishjournalistessayistliterary critictranslator
- Biography
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Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
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Alberto Cirio
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- politician
- Biography
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Alberto Cirio is an Italian politician, who is the current President of Piedmont and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Italy. He is a member of the centre-right Forza Italia.
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Roberto Herlitzka
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- stage actoractor
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Roberto Herlitzka was an Italian theatre and film actor. He has appeared in 38 films since 1973. In 2004 he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor and Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor for his role in Good Morning, Night.
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Laura Castelli
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- politician
- Biography
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Laura Castelli is an Italian politician.
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Giampaolo Pansa
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- writerwartime collaboratorjournalist
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Giampaolo Pansa was an Italian journalist, commentator, and novelist. Most of his writings were rooted in modern or contemporary history, notably with regard to the Italian Resistance and the years of Benito Mussolini.
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Renato Dulbecco
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- In 1936 graduated with Doctor of Medicine in anatomy and pathology
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- physicianvirologist
- Biography
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Renato Dulbecco was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.
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Augusta Montaruli
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Augusta Anita Laura Montaruli is an Italian politician and lawyer. She is a member of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, led by current italian PM Giorgia Meloni.
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Mario Soldati
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- screenwriterpoliticianfilm directorwriterjournalist
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Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954, he won the Strega Prize for Lettere da Capri. He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, such as Alida Valli, Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.
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Fabiana Dadone
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- politician
- Biography
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Fabiana Dadone is an Italian politician, who served as Minister for Youth Policies in the Draghi Cabinet between 2021 and 2022, as well as Minister of Public Administration in the Conte II Cabinet between 2019 and 2021.
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Luigi Galleani
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- lawyerwriter
- Biography
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Luigi Galleani was an Italian insurrectionary anarchist and communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations and violent attacks.
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Leone Ginzburg
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- partisanpoliticianwriterjournalisttranslator
- Biography
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Leone Ginzburg was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
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Carlo Angela
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- psychiatristpoliticianneuropsychiatrist
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Carlo Angela was an Italian doctor, who has been recognized as a "Righteous Among the Nations" for his efforts during World War II in saving Jewish lives. He is the father of TV journalist and science writer Piero Angela and grandfather of Alberto Angela.
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Galileo Ferraris
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- inventorelectrotechnicianphysicistpolitician
- Biography
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Galileo Ferraris was an Italian university professor, physicist and electrical engineer, one of the pioneers of AC power system and inventor of the induction motor, although he never patented his work. Many newspapers touted that his work on the induction motor and power transmission systems was one of the greatest inventions of all ages. He published an extensive and complete monograph on the experimental results obtained with open-circuit transformers of the type designed by the power engineers Lucien Gaulard and John Dixon Gibbs.
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Roberto Gervaso
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- biographertelevision presenterwriterjournalistaphorist
- Biography
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Roberto Gervaso was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Premio Bancarella twice: for L'Italia dei Comuni in 1967, and for Cagliostro in 1973.
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Furio Colombo
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- lecturerscreenwriterwriteressayistpolitician
- Biography
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Furio Colombo was an Italian journalist and politician. He started his career in the mid-1950s, working with RAI. In the late 1980s, after moving to New York, he worked as a correspondent for La Stampa and La Repubblica. He wrote for various newspapers and taught at the University of Bologna, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley, at different phases of his life, and served as the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City.
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Antonio Fogazzaro
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- writerpoetnovelistpolitician
- Biography
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Antonio Fogazzaro was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. Fogazzaro has been called "the most eminent Italian novelist since Manzoni." He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. In Fogazzaro's work there is a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences.
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
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- population geneticistuniversity teacherbiologistanthropologistgeneticist
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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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Enzo Bianchi
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- writerChristian monkjournalisttheologian
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Enzo Bianchi is an Italian Catholic layman who founded the Bose Monastic Community and served as its first prior from 1965 to 2017.
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Rocco Buttiglione
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- politicianminister
- Biography
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Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. Buttiglione's nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his conservative Catholic views on homosexuality, despite his assurances that these were only his personal convictions and would not dictate his administration.
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Silvio Garattini
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- scientist
- Biography
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Silvio Garattini is an Italian scientist, pharmacology research scientist, physician and professor in chemotherapy and pharmacology and director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research.
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Claude Louis Berthollet
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- In 1768 graduated with doctorate in medicine
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- physicianchemistpolitician
- Biography
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Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to the theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. On a practical basis, Berthollet was the first to demonstrate the bleaching action of chlorine gas, and was first to develop a solution of sodium hypochlorite as a modern bleaching agent.
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Salvador Luria
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- virologistchemistmicrobiologistuniversity teacher
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Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.
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Franco Bernabè
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- bankereconomist
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Franco Bernabè is an Italian banker and manager, formerly the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Telecom Italia, appointed on 3 December 2007.
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Giorgio Bocca
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- writerpartisanjournalistpolitician
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Giorgio Valentino Bocca was an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement.
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Urbano Rattazzi
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- diplomatlawyerpolitician
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Urbano Pio Francesco Rattazzi was an Italian politician and statesman.
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Quintino Sella
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- economistuniversity teachermathematiciancrystallographerpolitician
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Quintino Sella was an Italian politician, economist and mountaineer.
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Gilberto Pichetto Fratin
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- politician
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Gilberto Pichetto Fratin is an Italian politician who is the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security of the Meloni government since 22 October 2022.
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Vincenzo Gioberti
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- politicianpresbyterwriterphilosopherprofessor
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Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher, publicist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Sardinia from 1848 to 1849. He was a prominent spokesman for liberal Catholicism.
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Giulio Carlo Argan
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- screenwriteruniversity teacherpoliticianhistorianart historian
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Giulio Carlo Argan was an Italian art historian, critic and politician.
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Pitigrilli
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- aphoristwriterjournalist
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Pitigrilli was the pseudonym of Dino Segre, an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaina (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the list of prohibited books by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use (cocaina being cocaine) and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death. He spent his later decades of life as a Catholic himself.
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Ascanio Sobrero
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- physicianchemistinventor
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Ascanio Sobrero was an Italian chemist, born in Casale Monferrato. He studied under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin, who had worked with the explosive material guncotton.
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Mario Borghezio
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- politician
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Mario Borghezio is an Italian politician who represented Lega Nord in the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 2001, and as a Member of the European Parliament from 2001 to 2019.
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Ugo Mattei
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- jurist
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Ugo Mattei is the Emeritus Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California, and a full professor of civil law in the University of Turin, Italy. He is the academic coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. He is also a columnist for the Italian newspapers Il Manifesto and Il Fatto Quotidiano. For his ground-breaking studies on the commons, in 2017 Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.
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Neja
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- singer-songwriterjazz musician
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Agnese Cacciola, best known as Neja, is an Italian dance and pop-jazz singer.
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Aurelio Peccei
- Enrolled in the University of Turin
- Studied in 1930
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- partisanwriterentrepreneurbusinesspersoneconomist
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Aurelio Peccei, was an Italian industrialist and philanthropist, who co-founded with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which, in 1972, produced The Limits to Growth report.
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Andrea Delmastro Delle Vedove
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- politician
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Andrea Delmastro Delle Vedove is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2018 general election, and was re-elected in 2022. Since 2022, he has served as undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice.
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Piero Scaruffi
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- poetwriteressayistmusic criticjournalist
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Piero Scaruffi is an Italian-American writer who maintains a website on which his reviews of music, film, and art are published.
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Edoardo Sanguineti
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- playwrightliterary criticwritertranslatorpoet
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Edoardo Sanguineti was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Scipione Riva-Rocci
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- university teacherinventorphysician
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Scipione Riva Rocci was an Italian internist, pathologist and pediatrician. He is best known for the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure.
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Costanzo Preve
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- philosopherwritersecondary school teacher
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Costanzo Preve was an Italian philosopher and a political theoretician.
