Saverio Bettinelli was an Italian Jesuit writer. He became known as a polymath, dramatist, polemicist, poet, and literary critic. He was a friend of some of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Francesco Algarotti, Vincenzo Monti and Ippolito Pindemonte. Théodore Tronchin, Guillaume du Tillot, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Giacomo Filippo Durazzo, Pietro Verri, Giammaria Mazzucchelli and Francesco Maria Zanotti were among his correspondents.
Lodovico Antonio Muratori, commonly referred to in Latin as Muratorius, was an Italian Catholic priest, notable as historian and a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.
Giovanni Botero was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, author of Della Ragion di Stato , in ten chapters, printed in Venice in 1589, and of Universal Relations,, addressing the world geography and ethnography. With his emphasis that the wealth of cities was caused by adding value to raw materials, Botero may be considered the ancestor of both Mercantilism and Cameralism.
Palazzo Brera or Palazzo di Brera is a monumental palace in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It was a Jesuit college for two hundred years. It now houses several cultural institutions including the Accademia di Brera, the art academy of the city, and its gallery, the Pinacoteca di Brera; the Orto Botanico di Brera, a botanical garden; an observatory, the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera; the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, a learned society; and an important library, the Biblioteca di Brera.
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
The Sicilian Buttercup is a breed of domestic chicken originating from the island of Sicily. The breed was imported to the United States in the nineteenth century, and to Britain and Australia early in the twentieth century. It derives from the indigenous Siciliana breed of Sicily, but long separation from the original stock has led to marked differences between the two.
The Siciliana is an ancient Italian breed of chicken from the Mediterranean island of Sicily. It is notable for its unusual double or rose comb, for the early age at which birds reach maturity, and for the unusual shape of the eggs. The Sicilian Buttercup, bred in Australia, Great Britain and the North America, derives from it, but its long separation from the original stock has led to marked differences between the two.
The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani is a biographical dictionary published in 100 volumes by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, started in 1960 and completed in 2020. It includes about 40,000 biographies of distinguished Italians. The entries are signed by their authors and provide a rich bibliography.
The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples during the revival of classical learning and later led by Giovanni Pontano who gave it a more official character to the meetings.
The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IVSLA) is an academy of sciences in Venice.
Giovan Battista di Crollalanza was an Italian writer. From 1841 he published works on many topics and in several genres, among them histories, plays and poetry. From the 1870s he wrote only on heraldry.
Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna was an Italian writer, scholar, and book collector. He left his huge collection of books to the city of Venice and it now forms part of the Museo Correr.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Reggio Emilia in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
Niccolò Franco was a poet and literato executed for libel.
Sansoni is an Italian publisher founded in 1873 by Giulio Cesare Sansoni, located in Florence.
Le Lettere is an Italian publishing house based in Florence, founded in 1976 by publisher Federico Gentile, son of the philosopher Giovanni Gentile.
Federico Gentile was an Italian publisher. Gentile is best remembered for founding the publishing company Le Lettere, that he created after many years at the helm of Sansoni, which was acquired by Giovanni Gentile who entrusted it to his son in 1932.
Domenico Marotta was an Italian chemist and scientist, serving as the director of the National Institute of Health (ISS) from 1935 to 1961.
Giuseppe Albini was an Italian philologist, Latinist and politician.
