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Atto Vannucci
Vannucci assembled biographies of political martyrs, helping shape how the struggle for Italian liberty would be remembered.
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Aurelio Saliceti
Saliceti helped draft the Roman Republic’s constitution of 1849 before exile led him toward a different plan for southern Italy.
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Baldassarre Peruzzi
Peruzzi worked across painting and architecture, using real and represented space to answer difficult Roman sites.
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Barnaba Tortolini
Tortolini taught mathematics in Rome and founded a scientific journal that connected Italian researchers with colleagues abroad.
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Bartolomeo Eustachio
The anatomist behind the Eustachian tube, whose major anatomical plates reached print long after his death.
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Bartolomeo Eustachio
The anatomist behind the Eustachian tube, whose major anatomical plates reached print long after his death.
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Bartolomeo Pinelli
Pinelli’s prints and drawings made the people, gestures, and street life of Rome a subject for collectors and travelers.
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Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini made goldsmithing and sculpture serve princely display, then cast his own turbulent career as the subject of an autobiography.
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Bioparco di Roma
Rome’s zoological park occupies the northern part of the estate and has a history stretching back to 1911.
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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Cavour used parliamentary government, economic policy, and international alliances to advance Italian unification under the Savoy monarchy.
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Camillo Finocchiaro Aprile
Finocchiaro Aprile’s name is attached to the 1913 criminal procedure code, which governed how cases moved through the Italian courts.
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Carlo Botta
Carlo Botta wrote histories of the American Revolution and modern Italy after a career shaped by revolutionary politics and exile.
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Carlo Cattaneo
Cattaneo argued for a federal republic and treated practical knowledge as a means of social and political improvement.
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Carlo Fea
Fea worked to identify, excavate, and protect Rome’s antiquities during the upheavals of the Napoleonic period and papal restoration.
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Carlo Goldoni
Goldoni developed written comedies from the practices of working theater and brought social observation into dramatic action.
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Carlo Maratta
Maratta joined a major career in painting to the restoration of Raphael’s Roman frescoes.
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Carlo del Prete
Del Prete combined navigation and piloting in the long-distance flights that made Italian aviation a public spectacle in the 1920s.
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Casa del Cinema
A film venue in the restored Casina delle Rose, a building whose earlier uses included a dairy, restaurant, and dance hall.
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