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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Toscanelli’s astronomical observations and geographical arguments joined practical measurement to the uncertain world maps of the Renaissance.
Find on the mapThe Busts of the Pincio Gardens — Page 9
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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Pellegrino Rossi
Rossi’s career crossed Switzerland, France, and Rome before his assassination during the constitutional crisis of 1848.
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Petrarch
Petrarch turned love poetry, classical scholarship, and carefully revised letters into a lasting study of the divided self.
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Pico della Mirandola
Pico planned a public debate on 900 propositions, but papal objections prevented the ambitious Roman gathering.
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Pietro Cavallini
Cavallini’s Roman mosaics and frescoes give sacred figures weight and presence without abandoning their ceremonial order.
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Pietro Colletta
Colletta wrote the history of Naples after serving successive regimes. His account combines firsthand knowledge with the judgments of a participant.
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Pietro Giordani
Giordani defended Italian literary tradition and became an important correspondent and early supporter of Giacomo Leopardi.
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Pietro Metastasio
Metastasio wrote opera librettos that many composers reused, shaping stories around the pressure between public duty and private feeling.
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Pietro Raimondi
Raimondi’s command of counterpoint culminated in three oratorios designed to be performed separately or simultaneously.
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Pliny the Elder
A Roman writer and fleet commander whose Natural History preserves ancient knowledge about the natural world and the arts.
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Pompey the Great
Pompey’s extraordinary commands and public buildings made him a dominant Roman figure before civil war with Caesar.
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Pythagoras
A Greek thinker associated with Croton in southern Italy, whose historical life must be separated from later Pythagorean legend.
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Raimondo Montecuccoli
Montecuccoli combined command in the Habsburg armies with writing about the practical conditions required to sustain a war.
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Salvator Rosa
Rosa’s rough landscapes and unsettling subjects offered a deliberately different register from the ordered pastoral scene.
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Salvatore Greco dei Chiaramonte
A Garibaldian volunteer and fencing master, Greco established a family tradition of teaching swordsmanship near Rome’s Pantheon.
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Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal at Zama, but his later political standing in Rome was less secure than his military reputation.
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Scipione Maffei
Maffei studied inscriptions as historical evidence and brought ancient tragedy into the arguments of eighteenth-century theater.
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Sebastiano Serlio
Serlio’s illustrated books carried architectural designs to readers who could never study the buildings in person.
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