Francesco Maria Santinelli (1627-1697) was an Italian marquis, count, Marinist poet, librettist and alchemist. In Senigallia, Christina, Queen of Sweden was welcomed in verse by the handsome Santinelli and his brother, Ludovico, an acrobat and dancer. [1] Both seem to have been accomplished scoundrels. [2] A year later Ludovico was witness and participant at the murder of Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi at Fontainebleau. (Francesco Maria was on business in Rome during this infamous event.) After the scandal, she promised Pierre Chanut that Ludivico and his two helpers would have to leave her court. [3]
Carlo Fea was an Italian archaeologist.
Daniello Bartoli, SJ was an Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer, celebrated by the poet Giacomo Leopardi as the "Dante of Italian prose"
Vincenzo Monti was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening becoming an extremely recognizable phrase among Italians.
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was an Italian critic and poet. Crescimbeni was a founding member and leader of the erudite literary society of Accademia degli Arcadi in Rome.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Filadelfo Mugnos was an Italian historian, genealogist, poet and man of letters.
Marino Zorzi, born in Venice, was the 50th Doge of the Republic of Venice, from 23 August 1311 until his renunciation in 1312 and withdrawal to a hermitic life. He was married to Agneta. Considered to have been a devout man, he had served as an ambassador to Rome. He may have been elected to decrease tensions in the city caused by the attempted revolt of Bajamonte Tiepolo as well as tensions with Rome, still angry with Venice over her occupation of the city of Ferrara (1308–09).
Girolamo Graziani was an Italian poet and diplomat.
Antonio Lupis was a prolific Italian writer of the Baroque period.
Luigi Cimara was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1914 and 1960. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Alessandro Borgia was an Italian bishop and archbishop.
Francesco Mancini was an Italian painter whose works are known between 1719 and 1756. He was the pupil of Carlo Cignani.
Faustina Pignatelli Carafa, princess of Colubrano, was an Italian mathematician and scientist from Naples. She became the second woman to be elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna on 20 November 1732.
The Scrittori d'Italia was an Italian book collection, published by Giuseppe Laterza & figli from 1910 to 1987 in Bari. The series was born with the intent to define and explain a cultural canon of the new Italy, disassociating from a culture yet considered too much based on the classic of the humanism, and choosing to represent also the civil history of the newborn Italian State. The original work plan included 660 volumes, of which 287 were actually published for a total of 179 works.
Antonio Mongitore was a Sicilian presbyter, historian and writer, known for his works about the history of Sicily. He was also canon of the cathedral chapter of Palermo.
The Arese are a prominent family of the Milanese nobility.
Angelico Aprosio was an Italian Augustine monk, scholar, and bibliophile.
Tommaso Aversa was an Italian Baroque poet and playwright.
Ludovico Settala was an Italian physician who lived during the Renaissance.
Carlo de' Dottori is an Italian writer, best remembered for his autobiographical Confessioni and his tragedy Aristodemo, considered by Benedetto Croce one of the masterpieces of Italian Baroque literature.