The Pazzi conspiracy was a plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
The Ventimiglia were a noble family of Liguria, now in Italy. Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later.
In classical scholarship, the editio princeps of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts, which could be circulated only after being copied by hand.
Marino Ortolani was an Italian pediatrician who developed a clinical test for the recognition of hip dysplasia called the Ortolani test.
Giuseppe Maria Ficatelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Rocco Jemma (1866–1949) was an Italian pediatrician.
Marco Antonio Guarini was an Italian historian and scholar, nephew of Giovanni Battista Guarini and author of the Compendio Historico and of the Famiglie illustri della città di Ferrara.
Bartolino (Bertolino) Ploti da Novara was an Italian military architect and engineer.
Giovanni Pellegrini was an Italian architect.
Andrea Della Corte was an Italian musicologist and critic. Born in Naples on 5 April 1883, Della Corte studied law at the University of the native city, but was self-taught in music. After some short experiences in Neapolitan papers, he moved to Turin, where he was music critic for La Stampa from 1919 to May 1967. He brought the music journalism in Italy to a level of «professionalism hitherto unknown». In Turin, Della Corte also taught history of music, both at the Conservatory (1926–53) and at the University (1939–53).
The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the Venetian nobility. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of Santorini and Thirassia, and held military fiefs on the island of Crete. Members of the family were involved in the conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo against the Doge of Venice in 1310.
The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist Heinrich Mylius in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in Milan, which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco work. It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World War.
Paride da Ceresara was an Italian humanist, poet, alchemist and astrologer.
Biagio Cusano was an Italian Marinist poet and professor of law. The date of his birth is currently unknown. He is best known for being Gennaro Cusano's uncle and Marcello Papiniano Cusani's grand uncle.
The Cortusi family was prominent in Padua in the 13th through 15th centuries. In contemporary documents, their surname may also appear as da Cortusiis, da Curtosiis, de Curtexis or de Cortisiis.
Ciro Spontoni (1552-1610) was an Italian advisor to rulers, diplomat, and historian.
Guglielmo Manzi was an Italian classicist and librarian of what was then the Biblioteca Barberiniana.
Antonio Maria Biscioni was an Italian historian, philologist, and librarian for the Laurentian library of Florence. He was born in Florence and entered religious orders. Among his pupils were Giovanni Gaetano Bottari. He wrote a history of Pistoia in the 14th-century: Historie pistolesi, ovvero delle cose avvenute in Toscana dall'anno 1300 al 1348. He catalogued the Hebrew and Greek biblical texts in the Laurenziana: Bibliothecae Ebraicae Graecae Florentinae, sive Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurenzianae, Volume 1. He was a member of the Accademia della Crusca.
Francesco Beretta was an Italian organist, composer and Kapellmeister and a predecessor of Paolo Lorenzani - a pupil of Orazio Benevoli - at the Cappella Giulia of St. Peter.
