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Dante Alighieri
An exiled Florentine who made the afterlife a setting for arguments about language, power, love, and justice.
Find on the mapThe Busts of the Pincio Gardens
The first busts were placed along the Pincio paths in the early 1850s, following a commission by the Roman Republic in 1849. They honored figures from Italian history and culture as part of a project to build a shared national identity. New busts continued to be added into the twentieth century.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini’s Borghese sculptures make action depend on the viewer’s position, turning carved stone into a sequence of discoveries.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garibaldi led volunteer armies in South America and Italy, including the 1860 campaign that overthrew Bourbon rule in the south.
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Grazia Deledda
Deledda’s fiction examines desire, guilt, obligation, and social pressure through lives rooted in Sardinia.
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Leonardo da Vinci
A painter who used drawing to investigate anatomy, moving water, and the mechanics of sight. His Roman years came late in his career.
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Raphael
Raphael organized figures, architecture, and gesture into paintings whose apparent ease rests on careful design and collaboration.
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Alberico Gentili
An Italian religious exile at Oxford, Gentili examined war and diplomacy as legal problems between political communities.
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Aleardo Aleardi
A Romantic poet whose verse joined landscape, political exile, and the movement for Italian unification.
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Alessandro Manzoni
Manzoni’s The Betrothed follows ordinary people through coercion, famine, and plague while examining the failures of institutions.
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Alessandro Verri
Verri moved from Milanese Enlightenment journalism to historical fiction inspired by the ancient remains of Rome.
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Alessandro Vessella
Vessella directed Rome’s municipal band and used arrangements and public concerts to bring a broad musical repertoire to the city.
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Alessandro Volta
Volta’s electric pile provided a sustained source of current and opened new possibilities for experimental science.
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Alfonso La Marmora
La Marmora helped organize the Piedmontese and Italian armies, served as prime minister, and faced bitter criticism after the defeat at Custoza.
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Amadeus V of Savoy
Amadeus V governed Savoy through disputed inheritance, marriage alliances, and negotiation across the Alps.
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Andrea Doria
Doria’s command of galleys gave him the means to reshape Genoa’s alliances and political institutions.
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Andrea Palladio
Palladio adapted ancient architectural forms to villas, civic buildings, and churches, then explained those choices in print.
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Angelo Brofferio
Brofferio joined journalism, theater, poetry, and parliamentary opposition in the democratic politics of the Risorgimento.
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Angelo Camillo De Meis
A physician and philosopher, De Meis treated the history of medicine as part of a larger argument about science and society.
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