Lega Nord, whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania, is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as Lega, without changing its official name. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even before the rebranding, and informally as the Carroccio. The party's latest elected leader was Matteo Salvini.
Tiziano Terzani was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon to the hands of the Viet Cong and the fall of Phnom Penh at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s.
Tiziano Ferro is an Italian singer, songwriter, producer, and author. He broke through in 2001 with his international hit single "Perdono" and has remained commercially successful since then, in several countries. Ferro has released a Spanish version of each of his albums and has also sung in English, Portuguese, and French. Known as the modern face of Italian pop music, he frequently writes songs for other artists and has produced albums for Giusy Ferreri, Alessandra Amoroso and Baby K.
Primary elections were first introduced in Italy by Lega Nord in 1995, but were seldom used until before the 2005 regional elections.
Umberto Veronesi was an Italian oncologist, physician, scientist, and politician, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. He was the founder and president of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He also founded and held the role of scientific director and scientific director emeritus of the European Institute of Oncology. During his life and career, Veronesi was awarded a number of prizes for his contributions.
Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator, and television personality. He is president of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto. Appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Sgarbi is also a columnist for il Giornale and works as an art critic for Panorama and IO Donna. A popular ecletic and mediatic phenomenon, Sgarbi is well known for his glib, verbal aggressiveness, and insults, which often led to libels.
Fabrizio Gatti is an Italian investigative journalist and author. He is also Editorial editor, Insight, at the Italian daily Today.it. Between 1987 and 2022 Gatti wrote for the Italian weekly l'Espresso, the daily "Corriere della Sera" and before "il Giornale" and "il Cittadino". His reportages and undercover investigations have been translated all over the world.
Pierluigi Cappello was an Italian poet. He was born in Gemona del Friuli, and raised in Chiusaforte.
L'amore è una cosa semplice is the fifth studio album by Italian pop singer-songwriter Tiziano Ferro. The album was released in Europe on 28 November 2011, and it was preceded by the single "La differenza tra me e te", released on 14 October 2011. L'amore è una cosa semplice was the best-selling album in Italy in 2012.
Sergio Zanni is an Italian painter and sculptor. After obtaining the Diploma at the Institute of Arts 'Dosso Dossi' in Ferrara, Italy, he graduated from the Academy of Arts in Bologna. He taught in the Institute of Arts 'Dosso Dossi' until 1995. For his research in sculpturing he utilized backed clay and, successively, lighter material for sculptures of large dimensions.
Pietro Ichino is an Italian politician and professor of labor law at the University of Milan. From 1979 to 1983, he was an independent left-wing MP belonging to the ranks of the Italian Communist Party. In 2008, he was elected senator for the Democratic Party in the district of Lombardy.
Paolo Brescia is an Italian architect and founder of OBR Open Building Research.
Riccardo Cervi is an Italian professional basketball player who last played for Virtus Roma of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).
Mauro Modin is an Italian painter. His work is tightly bound with and contaminated by music, in particular Jazz.
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival was founded in 2000 under the name of Science plus Fiction by the Research and Experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground with the ambitious purpose of re-launching the Festival Internazionale del film di fantascienza, which had been held in the northern Italian city of Trieste in the years 1963–1982.
Events during the year 2004 in Italy.
Oreste Del Buono was an Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
Giampaolo Pansa was an Italian journalist-commentator and novelist. Most of his writings were rooted in recent or contemporary history, notably with regard to the Italian Resistance and the Benito Mussolini years.
Tiziano Rossi is an Italian poet. He is known for his published books of poetry, but in 2020 he also published a collection of short stories.
