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Andrea Doria
Doria’s command of galleys gave him the means to reshape Genoa’s alliances and political institutions.
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Andrea Palladio
Palladio adapted ancient architectural forms to villas, civic buildings, and churches, then explained those choices in print.
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Angelo Brofferio
Brofferio joined journalism, theater, poetry, and parliamentary opposition in the democratic politics of the Risorgimento.
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Angelo Camillo De Meis
A physician and philosopher, De Meis treated the history of medicine as part of a larger argument about science and society.
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Angelo Celli
Celli connected malaria research with access to medicine, education, and the living conditions of rural workers around Rome.
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Angelo Secchi
Secchi studied the physical nature of stars through their spectra and helped establish astrophysics from an observatory in Rome.
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Annibale Caro
Caro’s Italian Aeneid gave Virgil a new poetic voice, while his court employment connected literature with the planning of images.
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Antonio Baldissera
A general who moved from Austrian to Italian service, Baldissera commanded colonial forces in Eritrea before and after the defeat at Adwa.
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Antonio Canova
Canova’s sculpture joined classical forms to carefully finished marble, including the Borghese portrait of Pauline Bonaparte as Venus.
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Antonio D'Elia
D’Elia directed civic and military bands and wrote music and studies that drew on his training as a clarinetist.
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Antonio Nibby
Nibby combined ancient texts, inscriptions, and fieldwork to reconstruct the topography of Rome and its surrounding countryside.
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Antonio Panizzi
Panizzi helped make the British Museum’s books easier to find and its reading facilities better suited to a growing collection.
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Antonio Salandra
Salandra led the government that moved Italy from neutrality into World War I in 1915.
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Archimedes
Archimedes’ surviving mathematics is more revealing than the familiar stories about baths and impossible machines.
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Armando Spadini
A painter of family life who also painted the Pincio. His work sits between close observation, Impressionist color, and older Italian painting.
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Arnaldo Fusinato
A poet of satire and political defeat, Fusinato wrote his best-known Venetian poem during the republic’s collapse in 1849.
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Arnold of Brescia
Arnold of Brescia challenged the Church’s worldly power and became involved in the medieval Roman commune.
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Attilio Deffenu
A Sardinian journalist and revolutionary syndicalist, Deffenu linked social reform to the island’s problems before dying on the Piave in 1918.
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