Roberto Benigni

His 1991 Italian box office success, Johnny Stecchino, brought him much deserved international attention. American filmgoers, however, may have become aware of the Benigni brand of comedy earlier with the 1988 Walter Matthau vehicle Little Devils, which Benigni wrote, directed, and costarred in. He had also been visible--to arthouse audiences at le ...

Galileo Galilei

Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564, the son of Vincenzo Galilei, well known for his studies of music, and Giulia Ammannati.
He studied at Pisa, where he later held the chair in mathematics from 1589 - 1592.
He was then appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610.
During these years h ...

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini

GIOVANNI LORENZO BERNINI was, in the assessment of Janson (History of Art, p. 410), the greatest sculptor-architect of the 17th century. He began his career as a student of his father Pietro Bernini (1582-1629), a sculptor who had himself worked at one time with Camillo Mariani.
Later he attracted the patronage of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, fo ...
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Giovanni Giolitti

Giovanni Giolitti, the son of a magistrate, was born in Mondovi, Italy, in 1842. Trained as a lawyer he had socialist political sympathies as a young man. After working as a civil servant in 1882 he became a member of parliament as a Liberal. Giolitti soon established himself as an expert on economics and he became finance minister in the governmen ...

Alessandro Manzoni

1785–1873, Italian novelist and poet.… It was in 1821–27, under the influence of Sir Walter Scott, that Manzoni produced his most famous work, I promessi sposi (tr. The Betrothed, 1827), a novel of 16th-century Milan that reveals a detailed understanding of Italian life and remains one of Italy’s most enduring novels. By 187 ...
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