Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk, also spelled Lodovico was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478.
Daniello Bartoli, SJ was an Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer, celebrated by the poet Giacomo Leopardi as the "Dante of Italian prose"
Vincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening becoming an extremely recognizable phrase among Italians.
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was an Italian critic and poet. Crescimbeni was a founding member and leader of the erudite literary society of Accademia degli Arcadi in Rome.
The House of Chigi is an Italian princely family of Sienese origin descended from the counts of Ardenghesca, which possessed castles in the Maremma, southern Tuscany. Later, the family settled in Rome. The earliest authentic mention of them is in the 13th century, with one Alemanno, counsellor of the Republic of Siena.
Filadelfo Mugnos was an Italian historian, genealogist, poet, and man of letters.
Girolamo Graziani was an Italian poet and diplomat.
Antonio Lupis was a prolific Italian writer of the Baroque period.
Luigi Cimara was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1914 and 1960. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Alessandro Borgia was an Italian bishop and archbishop.
Cesare Rinaldi an Italian early Baroque poet.
The Alchemical Door, also known as the Alchemy Gate or Magic Portal, is a monument built between 1678 and 1680 by Massimiliano Palombara, marquis of Pietraforte, in his residence, the villa Palombara, which was located on the Esquiline Hill, near Piazza Vittorio, in Rome. This is the only one of five former gates of the villa that remains; there was a lost door on the opposite side dating them to 1680 and four other lost inscriptions on the walls of the mansion inside the villa.
Faustina Pignatelli Carafa, princess of Colubrano, was an Italian mathematician and scientist from Naples. She became the second woman to be elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna on 20 November 1732.
Teresa Landucci Bandettini was an Italian dancer, composer of extemporaneous verse, and poet, who is remembered as the Figurante Poetesca.
Count Adamo Chiusole was an Italian painter and art historian. He mainly painted subjects with animals, landscapes and capricci.
Two on a Vacation is a 1940 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Vittorio De Sica, María Denis, and Umberto Melnati. It was a remake of the 1932 German film Two in a Car. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
The Scrittori d'Italia was an Italian book collection, published by Giuseppe Laterza & figli from 1910 to 1987 in Bari. The series was born with the intent to define and explain a cultural canon of the new Italy, disassociating from a culture yet considered too much based on the classic of the humanism, and choosing to represent also the civil history of the newborn Italian State. The original work plan included 660 volumes, of which 287 were actually published for a total of 179 works.
Tommaso Aversa was an Italian Baroque poet and playwright.
Carlo de' Dottori is an Italian writer, best remembered for his autobiographical Confessioni and his tragedy Aristodemo, considered by Benedetto Croce one of the masterpieces of Italian Baroque literature.
Federigo Nomi was an Italian poet and translator.
