Andrea Frediani (born 1963) is an Italian historian and novelist.
Born in Rome, he graduated in Letters with a dissertation on medieval history; after graduating he wrote for several youth magazines and, subsequently, for historical magazines. In 1997 Newton & Compton published his first book, entitled Gli assedi di Roma ("The Sieges of Rome"). His first novel, entitled 300 guerrieri and inspired by the Battle of Thermopylae, was released in 2007. In 2008 he published Jerusalem, a historical novel mixing the events of the First Crusade with the story of a fictional gospel by James, Jesus Christ's brother.
Frediani his also the author of a number of essays concerning the most famous battles in history, such as Le grandi battaglie di Roma antica ("The Greatest Battles of Ancient Rome"), Le grandi battaglie di Napoleone and others. His latest novel is Il tiranno di Roma (2013), following the previous year's La dinastia ("The Dynasty"), which narrated the secret history of Rome's Julio-Claudian Dynasty.
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre.". He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, at one point giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down as part of the 1935 Oro alla Patria campaign during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Dom Guido Grandi, O.S.B. Cam. was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and engineer.
Francesco Severi was an Italian mathematician. He was the chair of the committee on Fields Medal on 1936, at the first delivery.
Giuseppe Bottai was an Italian journalist, and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.
Tommaso Pincio is the pseudonym of Marco Colapietro, an Italian author of five novels, including Love-shaped story.
Michelangelo Cerquozzi, known as Michelangelo delle Battaglie was an Italian Baroque painter known for his genre scenes, battle pictures, small religious and mythological works and still lifes. His genre scenes were influenced by the work of the Flemish and Dutch genre artists referred to as the Bamboccianti active in Rome who created small cabinet paintings and prints of the everyday life of the lower classes in Rome and its countryside. One of the leading battle painters active in Italy in the first half of the 17th century, Michelangelo Cerquozzi earned the nickname 'Michelangelo delle Battaglie'.
Filippo Scòzzari, is an Italian comics artist, painter and writer, one of the main figures of the 1970s underground art movement. Known for his first comic at Mondadori's Il Mago under the pen name Winslow Leech, he worked for Re Nudo and Il Mago, Radio Alice of Bologna, Cannibale, Il Male, Frigidaire, Blue, Panorama, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Glamour International.
Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.
Giovanni Battista Angioletti was an Italian writer and journalist.
Alessandro Piperno is an Italian writer and literary critic of Jewish descent, having a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.
Rodolfo Celletti (1917–2004) was an Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist. Considered one of the leading scholars of the operatic voice and the history of operatic performance, he published many books and articles on the subject as well as several novels.
Marco Di Tillo was born in Rome in 1951. He is married and has three sons. He graduated in Psychology and is a Radio and TV personality, film director, novelist, historical fiction, comic strips, adventure books and fairy tales.
Mariano Hugo, Prince of Windisch-Graetz is the current head of the Austria-Italian House of Windisch-Graetz. He is currently a member of the Grand Magisterium of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. A former ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Slovakia, he is also currently the Order's ambassador to Slovenia.
Cinzia Giorgio is an Italian writer.
Arrigo Petacco was an Italian writer, historian and journalist.
Francesco Falconi is an Italian fantasy writer.
Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Vittorio Gorresio was an Italian Journalist-commentator and essayist.
Antonio Scurati is an Italian writer and academic. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Strega Prize for his novel M. Il figlio del secolo (2018).
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