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Stesichorus
Stesichorus retold stories of Troy and Heracles in lyric poems composed for performance.
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Temple of Diana
A circular garden temple from the late eighteenth century, dedicated to Diana and designed as part of the Borghese landscape.
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Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas used sustained philosophical argument to examine questions of faith, knowledge, and human action.
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Titian
Titian built figures and landscapes through color; his Borghese paintings reward attention to meanings that remain open to debate.
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Tommaso Gulli
The commander of the Italian naval vessel Puglia died after violence in Split in July 1920, amid disputes over the postwar Adriatic.
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Tommaso Minardi
A teacher and draftsman who helped shape nineteenth-century Rome’s turn toward earlier Italian religious art.
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Torquato Tasso
Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered places a crusading army’s purpose against the desires and doubts of individual characters.
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Ugo Foscolo
Foscolo made exile, political disappointment, and the power of remembrance central subjects of Italian poetry and fiction.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Bellini shaped long vocal lines into dramatic expression in operas including Norma, La sonnambula, and I puritani.
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Vincenzo Camuccini
Camuccini used the disciplined composition of history painting to make episodes from antiquity legible as public and moral drama.
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Vincenzo Giordano Orsini
A Sicilian artillery officer whose diversion helped Garibaldi reach Palermo in 1860.
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Vincenzo Monti
Monti’s poetry and translation show both the power of Italian classicism and the pressures placed on writers by changing regimes.
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Virgil
The poet of the Aeneid, whose account of Aeneas made displacement, war, and loss part of Rome’s origin story.
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Vitruvius
The Roman author of a ten-book work on architecture that connects buildings with materials, water, machines, and human proportions.
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Vittorio Alfieri
Alfieri’s tragedies compress conflicts between freedom, power, and private desire into stark dramatic confrontations.
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
A scholar of public law, Orlando led Italy after Caporetto and represented it at the Paris peace conference.
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Vittorio Montiglio
Montiglio’s wartime service and later Fascist activism belong together in the history behind his commemorative portrait.
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Zeuxis
Zeuxis survives through ancient descriptions and stories about painting, including the famous contest in illusion with Parrhasius.
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