Pietro Sografi (1756-1815) was an Italian surgeon active in Padua, Italy. He became the professor of obstetrics at the University of Padua.
Born in Padua, he trained with his father, also a doctor. His brother, Antonio Simeone Sografi, was a popular librettist of operas. He was known as a man of great charity, aiding the ailments of both rich and poor. Napoleon honored him with the Insignia of the Crown of Iron.
He wrote the following manuscripts: [1]
Leopoldo Marco Antonio Caldani (1725–1813) was an Italian anatomist and physiologist.
Giuseppe Persiani was an Italian opera composer.
Giovanni Domenico Nardo was an Italian naturalist from Venice, although he spent most of his life in Chioggia, home port of the biggest fishing flotilla of the Adriatic. He learned taxidermy and specimen preparation from his uncle, an abbot. He went in a high school in Udine and studied medicine in Padua, where he reorganized the zoological collections. In 1832 he reorganized the invertebrate collection at the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna and in 1840 he became Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, an academy whose aim is "to increase, promulgate, and safeguard the sciences, literature and the arts". Nardo wrote hundreds of scientific publications ranging from medicine and social sciences, philology, technology, physics, but mostly on Venetian and Adriatic zoology. In marine biology, Nardo wrote on algae, marine invertebrates, fishes and sea turtles. A vast collection of his manuscripts and his personal library is preserved in the Natural History Museum of Venice.
Anguillara Veneta is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Venice and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Padua. The city is known for being the town of origin of the Bolsonaro family, a prominent Brazilian political clan.
Arre is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Venice and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,067 and an area of 12.4 square kilometres (4.8 sq mi).
Bagnoli di Sopra is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Venice and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,837 and an area of 34.9 square kilometres (13.5 sq mi).
Conselve is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Venice and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Padua. It has a population of 10,486 and an area of 24.2 square kilometres (9.3 sq mi).
Tribano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Venice and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Padua. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,284 and an area of 19.3 square kilometres (7.5 sq mi).
Antonio Balestra was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.
The Diocese of Padua is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Veneto, northern Italy. It was erected in the 3rd century. The diocese of Padua was originally a suffragan (subordinate) of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. When the Patriarchate was suppressed permanently in 1752, it became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Udine. In 1818, when the dioceses of northern Italy were reorganized by Pope Pius VII, it became a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Venice, and remains so today.
Franco "Giorgio" Freda is one of the leading neo-Fascist intellectuals of the post-war Italian far-right. He founded a publishing house for neo-Nazi thought, and described himself as an admirer of Hitler. He was convicted but later acquitted for lack of evidence for involvement in the Piazza Fontana bombing. He founded the Fronte Nazionale, which was disbanded by the Italian government in 2000 when Freda and forty-eight other members were found guilty of attempting to re-establish the National Fascist Party.
Girolamo Tartarotti was an Italian abbot, Neo-Platonist, and writer, primarily famed for his works on witchcraft.
Paolo Lioy was an Italian naturalist, redshirt patriot and politician.
Giambattista Suardi was an Italian mathematician.
Marino Pannelli was an Italian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
Giovanni Dolfin was an Italian Catholic Cardinal, writer and playwright, Patriarch of Aquileia from 1657 to his death.
Giuseppe Avanzini was an Italian mathematician and prelate.
Clemente Sibiliato or Sibilato was an Italian cleric, poet, and librarian.
Ambrogio Soldani (1733-1815) was an Italian Camaldolese monk who is known for his works relating the shell fossils found in the mountains of Tuscany. Some of his work could now be viewed as the intersection of geology, zoology and paleontology. Today Soldani is considered, together with Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari, the father of micropaleontology. Charles Lyell considered him one of the most important eighteenth-century naturalists. He also published observations about astronomy.
Danyyil Dvirnyy is an Italian chess grandmaster. He is a two time Italian Champion and winner of the Italian Team Chess Championship. He represented Italian Team at Chess Olympiads three times from 2012 to 2016.