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Francesco De Marchi
De Marchi studied fortifications, explored the submerged ships at Lake Nemi, and recorded an ascent of the Gran Sasso in 1573.
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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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Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
A novelist of historical resistance who also governed during Tuscany’s revolution of 1849.
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Francesco Lomonaco
Lomonaco turned the defeat of the Neapolitan Republic into a written indictment and later taught history in Napoleonic Italy.
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Francesco Mario Pagano
Pagano brought Enlightenment arguments about criminal justice into the short-lived Neapolitan Republic of 1799.
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Francesco Rismondo
A volunteer from Split in Dalmatia, Rismondo disappeared after capture in 1915 and became a symbol of Italian irredentism.
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Francesco de Sanctis
De Sanctis wrote literary history as an account of changing Italian intellectual and moral life.
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Fulcieri Paulucci di Calboli
Severely wounded in 1917, Paulucci di Calboli became a public advocate for Italy’s war effort before his death in 1919.
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Gabriele Rossetti
An exiled poet and Dante scholar whose London household produced Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Gaetano Filangieri
Gaetano Filangieri examined how laws could change society and exchanged ideas with Benjamin Franklin across the Atlantic.
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Gaius Marius
Seven consulships made Marius an exceptional figure in a republic increasingly troubled by military competition and political violence.
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo joined instrument-making, mathematical argument, and observation, while his Roman trial exposed the limits placed on cosmological debate.
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Giacinto Albini
Albini organized the 1860 uprising in Basilicata and helped transfer the region from Bourbon rule to the new Italian state.
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Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Vignola made the classical orders easier to apply and designed major buildings for papal and Farnese patrons.
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Giacomo Leopardi
Leopardi’s poetry examines desire and imagination without assuming that the natural world exists for human consolation.
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Giacomo Zanella
Zanella used a fossil shell to bring geological time into a poem shaped by Catholic belief and nineteenth-century science.
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Giambattista Vico
Vico used language and myth to investigate how people create the institutions and assumptions of their social world.
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Gian Domenico Romagnosi
Romagnosi examined punishment, administration, and social development, linking legal thought to the study of human society.
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Giordano Bruno
Bruno’s infinite universe formed part of a wider philosophy of nature, religion, and memory that brought him into conflict with the Inquisition.
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