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Casina Valadier
Giuseppe Valadier’s neoclassical café building connects the Pincio’s public promenade with Rome’s culture of social meeting places.
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Casina di Raffaello
A historic garden building used for children’s workshops, storytelling, and creative activities, with a schedule to check before visiting.
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Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena used letters and religious authority to intervene in the politics of the fourteenth-century Church.
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Cesare Battisti
Battisti combined geographical research and socialist politics before volunteering for Italy and being executed by Austria-Hungary in 1916.
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Cesare Beccaria
Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments challenged torture, excessive penalties, and the arbitrary use of state power.
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Cesare Fracassini
A nineteenth-century Roman painter whose church frescoes and theater curtains brought historical drama to large public spaces.
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Christopher Columbus
Columbus’s Atlantic voyages connected Europe and the Caribbean through navigation, conquest, colonization, and violence against Indigenous peoples.
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Cicero
Cicero’s speeches and letters expose the arguments, ambitions, and compromises of Rome’s late Republic.
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Cinema dei Piccoli
A small cinema founded in 1934, with a long connection to children’s films and film education.
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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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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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