- Catherine Of Siena
Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 - April 29, 1380) was a Dominican Tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order. Catherine was the 23rd child out of 25 (her twin sister, the 24th, died at birth); her parents were Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth-dyer, and his wife, Lapa Piagenti, daughter of a local poet. A native of Siena, Catherine received no formal education. - Baccio D'Agnolo
Baccio D'Agnolo, born Bartolomeo Baglioni (c. 1460-1543), was a Florentine woodcarver, sculptor and architect. He was known as Baccio (an abbreviation of Bartolommeo) and d'Agnolo (son of Angelo, his father's name). He started as a wood-carver, and between 1491 and 1502 did much of the decorative carving in the church of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. - Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. In 1850, Parker was the first to use the phrase, "of all the people, by all the people, for all the people" which later influenced Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In words made famous by Martin Luther King, Jr. a century later, … - Beatrice Portinari
Beatrice Portinari, real name Bice di Folco Portinari ((1266-1290) was a woman from Florence, Italy, who was the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's "Vita Nuova". She also appears as his guide in "The Divine Comedy" (La Divina Commedia) in the last book, Paradise and in the last four canti of Purgatory. There Beatrice takes over as guide from the Latin poet Virgil because Virgil, a pagan, cannot enter Paradise and because, … - Cristoforo Landino
Cristoforo Landino (1424-24 September 1498) was a humanist and an important figure of the Florentine Renaissance. - Sergio Tacchini
Sergio Tacchini (born May 30, 1938) is an Italian fashion designer of sportswear in Florence, Italy. He started working with his partner (soon to be his wife) designing ladies fashion. - Stephen Alcorn
Stephen Alcorn is a visual artist. While born in the U.S., Stephen Alcorn spent his formative years in Florence, Italy. It was there that he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte, an experience that left an indelible impression upon him and infused his work with a passion for bold technical experimentation in a wide range of mediums. Mr. Alcorn’s work hangs in numerous private and permanent collections, both in the United States and in Europe. - Coluccio Salutati
Coluccio Salutati (February 16 1331 - May 4 1406) was one of the most important political and cultural leaders of Renaissance Florence. - Umberto Cassuto
Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, (1883 - 1951), was a rabbi and biblical scholar born in Florence, Italy. - Rossano Brazzi
Rossano Brazzi (September 18, 1916 - December 24, 1994) was an Italian actor. Brazzi was born in Bologna, and attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, a city in which he lived since the age of four. He made his film debut in a 1939 Italian film. Brazzi had an extensive filmography, much of it in Italian and French films, but the film that propelled him to international fame was " Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954), a Hollywood blockbuster, … - Martina Stella
Martina Stella (born November 28, 1984 in Florence) is an Italian television and film actress. __NOTOC_ - Ashley Jones
Ashley Jones (born September 3, 1976 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American television soap opera actress from Memphis, Tennessee She rose to fame on the long-running CBS soap opera "The Young and the Restless", playing Megan Dennison Viscardi from 1997 to 2000 and returned for a visit in 2001. During her time on the soap, she earned two Daytime Emmy nominations for the role. She currently plays Dr. - Leonie Frieda
Leonie Frieda is a Swedish-born former model, translator, and writer, working and living in the United Kingdom. Educated in the UK, France and Germany, Ms. Frieda speaks five languages. Her first book was a biography of Catherine de' Medici for which her exhaustive research led her to Paris and the châteaux of the Loire Valley to examine extensive original sources plus read and document facts and information from thousands of letters there as well as in Florence and Rome. - Joel Tanner Hart
Joel Tanner Hart (February 10, 1810 - March 2, 1877) was an American sculptor. Hart was born near Winchester, Kentucky sculptor of importance during America's antebellum years. As a young man, he worked as a stone-cutter, developing his skills as a sculptor. In the 1840s he joined a growing artistic and literary community in Florence, Italy where he lived for the remainder of his life. Joel Tanner Hart is best known for busts of Andrew Jackson (1838) and Henry Clay (1847). - Leo Stein
Leo Stein (born 1872 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; died July 29, 1947, in Florence, Italy) was an American art collector and critic. In addition to being elder brother to Gertrude Stein, he is also remembered as an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings. - Amasa Hewins
Amasa Hewins (July 11 1795-August 18 1855) was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter. Hewins was born in Sharon, Massachusetts to Esther (Kollock) and Amasa Hewins. He married Elizabeth Alden on August 22 1820. Thereafter he lived in Boston, and first exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1830, and occasionally thereafter until 1846. During the early 1830's he went abroad to study in Italy, France, … - James Jackson Jarves
James Jackson Jarves was an American newspaper editor, art critic and art collector. Jarves was the editor of the first weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands, the "Polynesian" (1840–1848). During the 1850s, Jarves relocated to Florence, Italy where he served as the U.S. vice-consul and collected art. In 1871, the Yale University Art Gallery purchased 119 early Italian paintings from Jarves at auction. - Giovanni Battista Donati
Giovanni Battista Donati (December 16, Pisa,Italy, 1826 - September 20 1873,Florence, Italy) was an Italian astronomer. Donati graduated at the university in his native city Pisa and afterwards he joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852 and was appointed director in 1864. Between 1854 and 1864 he discovered six new comets, including the spectacular Comet Donati (C/1858 L1), found in 1858. - Lois Hamilton
Lois Hamilton was an accomplished model, author, actress, artist and aviatrix. Born Lois Aurino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was a descendant of Italian nobility. She studied at Temple University in her native Philadelphia before going on to the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. Although she earned degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts, and wanted to pursue her interest in the arts, … - Stanton MacDonald-Wright
Stanton MacDonald-Wright, was a U.S. abstract painter. One of his significant achievements was co-founding the Synchromist movement in 1913. MacDonald-Wright was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and moved to Santa Monica, California at age ten. He soon moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, Académie Julian, École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi. While there he and Morgan Russell developed synchromism, … - Giulio Racah
Giulio (Yoel) Racah (1909 - August 28, 1965) was an Israeli physicist and mathematician. Born in Florence, Italy, he took his PhD from the University there in 1930, and later studied in Rome with Enrico Fermi. In 1937 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. In 1939, due to appliction of Anti-Jewish laws in Italy, Racah immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, … - Mathilde Bonaparte
Mathilde Bonaparte, was a daughter of Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte and his second wife Catharina of Württemberg. Born in Trieste, Italy, Mathilde was raised in Florence and Rome. She married a Russian rich tycoon, Anatole Demidoff di San Donato on November 1, 1840 in Florence. Anatole was raised to the station of Prince by the Grand Duke of Tuscany shortly before the wedding to fulfill the wishes of Mathilde's father and to preserve Mathilde's station as Princess. - Francesca Alexander
Francesca Alexander, also known as Fanny Alexander, (February 27, 1837 - January 21, 1917) was an American illustrator, author, and translator from the Italian. She was born Esther Frances Alexander in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at home. At age 16, her family moved to Florence, Italy, where she collected folk songs, tales, and customs. Her first batch of translations of Tuscan songs and stories, later published as "Roadside Songs of Tuscany", … - Silpa Bhirasri
Silpa Bhirasri, the father of modern arts in Thailand, (born Corrado Feroci 15 September 1892 in Florence, died 14 May 1962) was an Italian sculptor invited to Thailand to teach Western sculpture at the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Palace Affairs in 1923, founding what would become Silpakorn University. He changed his name and became a Thai national during World War II in 1944 in order to avoid arrest by the Japanese. - Francesco Zuccarelli
Francesco Zuccarelli (15 august 1702 - december 30, 1788) was an Italian Rococo painter He was born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, where he initially apprenticed with Paolo Anesi. He then worked in Rome with Giorgio Morandi, Pietro Nelli, and perhaps Andrea Locatelli. In 1732, he settled Venice, he became famous as one of the most desired landscape painters of the classicizing 18th century. - Frank Oppenheimer
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 - February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was later the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. He was the younger brother of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Growing up eight years Robert's junior, Frank was constantly in the shadow of his brilliant brother. - Magdalena de Pazzi
Magdalena De Pazzi (1566-1607) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church who was born into one of the wealthiest and most distinguished noble families of Renaissance Florence, Italy and baptized as "Catherine" (and known as "Atrina"). She experienced her first ecstasy (that is, losing consciousness of all but God) when she was only twelve, and in her mother's presence. From that time on, her mystical experiences were many and varied. - James Ellsworth
James Ellsworth (Hudson, Ohio, October 13, 1849 - June 2, 1925 at Villa Palmieri in Florence, Italy) was an American coal mine owner and banker. - Thomas R. Gould
Thomas R. Gould (1818-81) was an American sculptor, born in Boston. He was at first a merchant and did not adopt sculpture as a profession until after the Civil War. He practised in Boston until 1868, when he established a studio in Florence, Italy. Although a man of fine culture and true personal worth, he was deficient in technical training and real sculptural feeling. - Princess Norina Matchabelli
Princess Norina Matchabelli, born Norina Gilli in Florence, Italy, was co-founder of the perfume company (Prince Matchabelli), an actress, mime, mystic, publisher, and a devoted mandali of Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba. Her stage name was Maria Carmi. - Heather Petri
Heather Petri (born June 13, 1978 in Oakland, California) is an American water polo player, who won the silver medal with the US Women's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her position is attacker. Petri began playing water polo on the boys' team in high school, but helped begin a girls' water polo program at Miramonte High School and was team captain for two years. - Emilio Materassi
Emilio Materassi was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing driver. Born in Florence, Italy, he competed in Italian hill climbing races then in circuit racing. His most important victories came in 1927 driving for Bugatti T35C when he won the Targa Florio and the Tripoli Grand Prix. In June of 1928 he won the Grand Prix of Mugello driving a Talbot and finished second in the Coppa Acerbo in August then that same month he won his fourth Coppa Ciano at the Circuito del Montenero, … - Carlo Antonio Campioni
Carlo Antonio Campioni also known as Carlo Antonio Campione or Charles Antoine Campion (November 16, 1720 - April 12, 1788) was an Italian composer, as well as a collector of early music. Campioni was born in Lunéville in France. Not much is known about his education in music. Anton Raaff believes Campioni studied violin with Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. - Carol Rowell Council
Carol Rowell Council is the co-founder of the women's studies department at San Diego State University, the first women’s studies program in the United States in 1969. The other co-founder is Dr. Joyce Nower. Today, there are over 600 women's studies programs around the world. Council holds a bachelor's degree in public administration from San Diego State University (SDSU), and a master's degree in art history, from Rosary College's Villa Schifanoia campus, Florence, … - Baldassare Franceschini
Baldassare Franceschini (1611-1689), was a late Baroque painter active mainly around Florence. He was named, from Volterra the place of his birth, Il Volterrano, or (to distinguish him from Ricciarelli) Il Volterrano Giuniore, was the son of a sculptor in alabaster. At an early age, he worked as an assistant to his father, a sculptor, and then studied with the Volterran artist Cosimo Daddi. - Christoph Ludwig Agricola
Christoph Ludwig Agricola (November 5, 1667 - 1719) was a German landscape painter. He was born and died at Regensburg (Ratisbon). He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples. His numerous landscapes, chiefly cabinet pictures, are remarkable for fidelity to nature, and especially for their skilful representation of varied phases of climate. - Mustafa Setmarian Nasar
Mustafa Setmarian Nasar is a suspected jihadist, with links to al Qaeda. Nasar has been described as the mastermind of the Madrid bombing. On May 4 2006 various newspapers reported that Nasar was captured in November 2005, and had been in U.S. custody since then. Nasar, born in Syria, has joint Syrian and Spanish citizenship, through his marriage to a Spanish woman. The Taipei Times describes Nasar's as having a "Western appearance" that made him hard to catch. - Frank Fowler
Frank Fowler was an American figure and portrait painter, born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting in Europe at Florence, Italy for two years under Edwin White, and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and at the École des Beaux-Arts. He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg. On his return to New York in 1879 he devoted himself for a time to mural painting, … - Charles F. Abernathy
Charles F. Abernathy is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. A graduate of Harvard College and of Harvard Law School, Professor Abernathy was a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971. Professor Abernathy works in the fields of civil rights and comparative law. He is the author of Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation (West, 3d ed. 2000), the first modern casebook on federal civil rights statutes, … - Maurice Manning
Dr. Maurice Manning (b. June 14 1943, Muine Bheag, County Carlow) is a former Irish politician and has been President of the Irish Human Rights Commission since August 2002. Dr. Manning holds a PHD in Politics from University College Dublin. Manning, by virtue of his presidency of the Irish Human Rights Commission, …
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