Francesco I Sforza was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan,ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
Gian Galeazzo Visconti,was the first duke of Milan (1395) and ruled that late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He also ruled Lombardy jointly with his uncle Bernabò. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia,completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. He captured a large territory of northern Italy and the Po valley. He threatened war with France in relation to the transfer of Genoa to French control as well as issues with his beloved daughter Valentina. When he died of fever in the Castello of Melegnano,his children fought with each other and fragmented the territories that he had ruled.
Gian Galeazzo Ciano,2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari,was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of his father-in-law,Benito Mussolini,from 1936 until 1943. During this period,he was widely seen as Mussolini's most probable successor as head of government.
The Duchy of Milan was a state in Northern Italy,created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti,then the lord of Milan,and a member of the important Visconti family,which had been ruling the city since 1277.
Gian Galeazzo Sforza,also known as Giovan Galeazzo Sforza,was the sixth Duke of Milan.
The Grand Council of Fascism was the main body of Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy,which held and applied great power to control the institutions of government. It was created as a body of the National Fascist Party in 1922,and became a state body on 9 December 1928. The council usually met at the Palazzo Venezia,Rome,which was also the seat of the head of the Italian government. The Council became extinct following a series of events in 1943,in which Benito Mussolini was voted out as the Prime Minister of Italy.
Amico Bignami was an Italian physician,pathologist,malariologist and sceptic. He was professor of pathology at Sapienza University of Rome. His most important scientific contribution was in the discovery of transmission of human malarial parasite in the mosquito.
Ettore Marchiafava was an Italian physician,pathologist and neurologist. He spent most of his career as professor of medicine at the University of Rome. His works on malaria laid down the foundation for modern malariology. He and Angelo Celli were the first to elucidate living malarial parasites in human blood,and able to distinguish the protozoan parasites responsible for tertian and benign malaria. In 1885 they gave the formal scientific name Plasmodium for these parasites. They also discovered meningococcus as the causative agent of cerebral and spinal meningitis. Marchiafava was the first to describe syphilitic cerebral arteritis and degeneration of brain in an alcoholic patient,which is now eponymously named Marchiafava's disease. He gave a complete description of a genetic disease of blood now known Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria or sometimes Strübing-Marchiafava-Micheli syndrome,in honour of the pioneer scientists. He was personal physician to three successive popes and also to House of Savoy. In 1913 he was elected to Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He founded the first Italian anti-tuberculosis sanatorium at Rome. He was elected member of the Accademia dei Lincei,becoming its vice-president in 1933.
Mariastella Gelmini is an Italian politician and attorney. She served as Italian Minister of Education in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet until 16 November 2011. She served as minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the Draghi Cabinet from 2021 to 2022.
Antonio Guarco was the 20ºdoge of the Republic of Genoa.
Enrico Bignami was an Italian merchant,and the editor of La Plebe,a socialist newspaper.
The following events occurred in the year 1903 in Italy.
Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami was an Italian physicist. From March 2007 until August 2008,he was Chairman of the Italian Space Agency. Between 2010 and 2014,he was the first Italian to chair the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR),and from 2011 until 2015,he was President of INAF. He was also the chairman of the SKA project. He was married to fellow Italian astrophysicist Patrizia A. Caraveo.
Anna Maria Bernini is an Italian politician,lawyer and university professor.
The Legislature XVIII of Italy started on 23 March 2018 and ended on 12 October 2022. The composition of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate is the one resulting from the 4 March 2018 election,called after the dissolution of the Parliament announced by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017.
Aldo Oviglio was an Italian lawyer and politician,who served as the first minister of justice in the Mussolini government between October 1922 and January 1925.
Zenone Benini was an Italian industrialist and Fascist politician who served as the last minister of public works of the Mussolini Cabinet.
In the 2022 Italian general election,the centre-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) won an absolute majority of seats in the Italian Parliament. On 20 October,a few days following the elections of the presidents of the two houses of Parliament,Ignazio La Russa of FdI on 13 October for the Senate of the Republic,and Lorenzo Fontana of the League on 14 October for the Chamber of Deputies,consultations on the formation of a new cabinet officially began.
The Meloni government is the 68th government of the Italian Republic,the first headed by Giorgia Meloni,leader of Brothers of Italy,who is also the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Italy. The government was sworn in on 22 October 2022. It was one of the fastest government formations in the history of the Italian Republic. It was variously described as a shift to the political right,as well as the first far-right-led coalition in Italy since World War II.
Stefano Cavedagna is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.
