| | | Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of... | | Benedetto Accolti was an Italian jurist and historian. He was born at Arezzo, in Tuscany, of a noble family, several members of which were... | | Bruno B. Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic... | | Giorgio La Pira (January 4, 1904- November 5, 1977) was an Italian politician who served as mayor of Florence twice (1950-1956, 1960-1964). He also... | | Antonio Abetti (June 19 1846 - February 20 1928) was an Italian astronomer. Born in San Pietro di Gorizia, he earned a degree in mathematics and... | | Lois Hamilton was an accomplished model, author, actress, artist and aviatrix. Born Lois Aurino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was a descendant... | | Giorgio Abetti (October 5, 1882 - August 24, 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio... | | Filippo Pacini was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacillus "Vibrio cholerae" in 1854, well before Robert... | | Born in Siena, Italy in 1815, Giovanni Caselli studied physics at the University of Florence, and went on to invent the Pantelegraph machine. There... | | Mark Musa is a graduate of Rutgers University (B.A., 1956), the University of Florence (as Fulbright Scholar 1956-1958), and the Johns Hopkins... | |