Giovan Battista Carpi was a prolific Italian comics artist, illustrator, and teacher from Genoa.
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Danilo Arona is an Italian writer, journalist, freelance writer and essayist, born in Alessandria, Piedmont, where he currently lives.
Gianni Baget Bozzo was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.
Piero Camporesi was an Italian historian of literature and an anthropologist. He was a professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna.
Gianfranco Miglio was an Italian jurist, political scientist, and politician. He was a founder of the Federalist Party. For thirty years, he presided over the political science faculty of Milan's Università Cattolica. Later on in his life, he was elected as an independent member of the Parliament to the Italian Senate for Lega Nord. The supporters of Umberto Bossi's party called him Prufesùr, a Lombard nickname to remember his role.
Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist.
The Acqui Award of History is an Italian prize. The prize was founded in 1968 for remembering the victims of the Acqui Military Division who died in Cefalonia fighting against the Nazis. The jury is composed of seven members: six full professors of history and a group of sixty (60) ordinary readers who have just one representative in the jury. The Acqui Award Prize is divided into three sections: history, popular history, and historical novels. A special prize entitled “Witness to the Times,” given to individual personalities known for their cultural contributions and who have distinguished themselves in describing historical events and contemporary society, may also be conferred. Beginning in 2003 special recognition for work in multimedia and iconography--”History through Images”—was instituted.
Mantua Comics & Games is an annual comic book and gaming convention in Mantua, Lombardy, northern Italy. The event takes place over three days, usually between the end of February and the beginning of March in the PalaBAM arena.
Viviana Mazza is a writer and a journalist at the foreign desk for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. At Corriere she specializes in covering the United States and the Middle East. She has also covered, among other countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. She edits the America-Cina newsletter and contributes to the La27Ora blog.
DeepCon is an Italian science fiction, fantasy and horror fan convention, covering multiple entertainment forms and media, mixed with a dose of actual, real-world science.
Michele Rech, known as Zerocalcare, is an Italian cartoonist. His pen name, literally meaning "zero limescale", was inspired by an Italian TV commercial jingle for a descaler product, and was chosen when he needed a nickname to quickly join a discussion on the Internet.
Andrea Tornielli is an Italian Catholic journalist and religious writer who serves as the editorial manager for the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication.
Power to the People! is a political party in Italy. It was launched in December 2017 as a left-wing joint electoral list of anti-capitalist parties and movements which ran in the 2018 general election.
Elena de' Grimani, also known as Ombra, is an Italian comics artist and illustrator, author of the character Rigel.
Daniela Padoan is an Italian writer, essayist, and documentary filmmaker. She won the 2005 Martoglio Prize for Journalism, and the 2006 Nonino Prize
Lelio Bonaccorso, is an Italian comic artist and illustrator.
Iain Michael Chambers is a British anthropologist, sociologist, and cultural studies scholar.
