Giovanni Ceva was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry. His brother, Tommaso Ceva, was also a well-known poet and mathematician.
Geminiano Montanari was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science. He was a member of various learned academies, notably the Accademia dei Gelati. Montanari's famous students include Domenico Guglielmini, Francesco Bianchini, Gianantonio Davia and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili.
Giuseppe Vitali was an Italian mathematician who worked in several branches of mathematical analysis. He gives his name to several entities in mathematics, most notably the Vitali set with which he was the first to give an example of a non-measurable subset of real numbers.
Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Ala, Trentino, Holy Roman Empire and died in Ferrara.
Francesco Zantedeschi was an Italian Catholic priest and physicist.
Paolo Frisi was an Italian priest, mathematician and astronomer.
Fortunio Liceti, was an Italian physician and philosopher.
The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petronius, who was the bishop of Bologna in the fifth century. Construction began in 1390 and its main facade has remained unfinished since. The building was transferred from the city to the diocese in 1929; the basilica was finally consecrated in 1954. It has been the seat of the relics of Bologna's patron saint only since 2000; until then they were preserved in the Santo Stefano church of Bologna.
Giuseppe Biancani, SJ was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named. Biancani was one of the most able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, Sphaera Mundi, was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620, 1630, 1635, and 1653.
Giovanni Battista Guglielmini was an Italian physicist. Guglielmini's experiments take place in the list of experiments by scientists to demonstrate the Earth's rotation experimentally.
Jacopo Dondi dall'Orologio (1290–1359), also known as Jacopo de' Dondi, was a doctor, astronomer and clock-maker active in Padua, Italy. He is remembered today as a pioneer in the art of clock design and construction. He was the father of Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio. Jacopo Dondi wrote on a number of subjects, including surgery, pharmacology, astrology and natural science.
Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni was an Italian philosopher and writer. Besides being a writer, he was also a commentator on works of art. He was considered an authoritative source on many topics.
Eustachio Manfredi was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and poet.
Gabriele Manfredi was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of calculus.
Ramiro Rampinelli, born Lodovico Rampinelli, was an Italian mathematician and physicist. He was a monk in the Olivetan Order. He had a decisive influence on the spread of mathematical analysis, algebra and mathematical physics in the best universities of Italy. He is one of the best known Italian scholars in the field of infinitesimal mathematics of the first half of the 18th century.
Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania or Gian Lorenzo d'Anania was an Italian geographer and theologian.
Bartolomeo Ambrosini was an Italian botanist, physician and naturalist, for over thirty years prefect of the Botanical Garden of Bologna and editor of many of the posthumous works of Ulisse Aldrovandi.
Accursia of Accorsia was allegedly an Italian jurist from Bologna, whose existence is debated.
Carlo Emmanuele Vizzani was an Italian classical scholar, translator, and canonist.
Giasone Denores or De Nores was an Italian philosopher of the Renaissance.
