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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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The Pincio busts commemorate people from different eras: poets, artists, scientists, and political figures. Browse their photographs, read their stories, and use the map to find a portrait along the garden paths.
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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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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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Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena used letters and religious authority to intervene in the politics of the fourteenth-century Church.
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Cesare Battisti
Battisti combined geographical research and socialist politics before volunteering for Italy and being executed by Austria-Hungary in 1916.
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Cesare Beccaria
Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments challenged torture, excessive penalties, and the arbitrary use of state power.
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Cesare Fracassini
A nineteenth-century Roman painter whose church frescoes and theater curtains brought historical drama to large public spaces.
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Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s Atlantic voyages connected Europe and the Caribbean through navigation, conquest, colonization, and violence against Indigenous peoples.
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Cicero
Cicero’s speeches and letters expose the arguments, ambitions, and compromises of Rome’s late Republic.
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