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Cola di Rienzo
A Roman notary who became tribune in 1347, Cola di Rienzo used the language of ancient Rome to challenge the city’s barons.
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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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Damiano Chiesa
A student from Habsburg Trentino who volunteered for Italy, Chiesa was captured and executed for treason in 1916.
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Daniele Manin
Manin led the Venetian republic of 1848 and 1849, then reconsidered the route to Italian unity during exile in Paris.
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Domenico Cimarosa
Cimarosa’s comic operas use ensembles and sharply drawn situations to turn social confusion into musical drama.
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Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante used ancient Roman forms to rethink churches and helped launch the rebuilding of St. Peter’s in 1506.
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Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia
The sixteenth-century Duke of Savoy recovered his dynasty’s territories and made Turin his capital in 1563.
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Emilio Visconti-Venosta
Visconti Venosta guided Italian foreign policy through the Roman question, European alliances, and a later rapprochement with France.
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Ennio Quirino Visconti
Visconti interpreted ancient sculpture for the Vatican collections and later worked with antiquities in Paris.
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Enrico Dandolo
Venice’s doge during the Fourth Crusade, Dandolo helped direct the expedition that captured and sacked Constantinople in 1204.
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Enrico Pessina
Pessina taught criminal law as a discipline concerned with responsibility and the limits of the state’s authority to punish.
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Ercole Consalvi
As Pius VII’s secretary of state, Consalvi negotiated with Napoleon and worked to restore the Papal States after the empire’s fall.
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Fabio Filzi
A lawyer and Italian volunteer from the Habsburg Adriatic borderlands, Filzi was executed with Cesare Battisti in Trento in 1916.
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Fausto Cecconi
Cecconi flew with Umberto Maddalena in endurance trials that tested how long an aircraft and its crew could remain aloft.
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Federico Cesi
Cesi made the Accademia dei Lincei a setting for collaborative observation, with Galileo among its members.
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Feliciano Scarpellini
Scarpellini organized experimental science in Rome and helped revive the name of the Lincei in the early nineteenth century.
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi solved the construction of Florence Cathedral’s vast dome and developed a measured architectural language for the early Renaissance.
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Filippo Corridoni
A revolutionary labor organizer who backed Italy’s entry into the First World War, Corridoni was killed on the Carso in 1915.
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Francesco Carrara
Carrara built a systematic account of criminal law and campaigned against the death penalty in nineteenth-century Italy.
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