- Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 - September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance artist. A serious student of Roman archaeology and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective as he thought best, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. - Damiano Cunego
Damiano Cunego (born September 19, 1981) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He rides for the the Italian UCI ProTeam Lampre-Fondital. Primarily a climber, he has improved his time-trialing performance and is a general classification contender for the stage races. - Massimo Moratti
Massimo Moratti (born May 16, 1945 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and president of the Serie A football club Internazionale. He is the son of the beloved Angelo Moratti, who was owner and president during Inter's golden age in the 1960s. It has long been the younger Moratti's ambition to restore Inter to the heights they once knew under his father. He has to date fallen short of that goal, … - Benedetto Marcello
Benedetto Marcello (July 31 or August 1, 1686 - July 24, 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. - Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio (born 18 February 1967 in Caldogno, Veneto) is an Italian retired footballer, among the most technically gifted and popular players in the world throughout the 1990s. He played for the Italy national team in three World Cups, and is the only Italian player ever to score in three World Cups. He was the best Italian player of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, carrying his team to the final, and losing the trophy to Brazil on penalties. - Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 - May 7, 1825), born in Legnago, Italy, was a composer and conductor. As the Austrian imperial "Kapellmeister" from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time. - Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4 October 1729 - 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" ("Carceri d'Invenzione"). - Sara Simeoni
Sara Simeoni (born April 19, 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump. Sara Simeoni was born in Rivoli Veronese, in the province of Verona. She soon took up athletics, specialising in the high jump. Her first international result was at the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki, where she ended 9th with a 178 cm jump. - Andrea Zanzotto
Andrea Zanzotto (born October 10, 1921) is an Italian poet. - Francesca Segat
Francesca Segat (born January 21, 1983 in Vittorio Veneto, Treviso) is a butterfly swimmer from Italy, who won the silver medal in the 200m Butterfly at the European SC Championships 2003. Francesca Segat also won the silver medal at the World SC Championship in Shangay in 2006 in the 200m butterfly with the time of 2:05.91 and the silver medal at the European Championship 2006 in Budapest in the same distance in 2:08.96. She resides in Rome, … - Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassarre Galuppi (October 18, 1706 - January 3, 1785) was an Italian composer from Venice, noted for his operas, and particularly opera buffa. He was born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Lagoon, as a result of which he became known as "Il Buranello". His first attempt at opera, "La fede nell'incostanza ossia gli amici rivali" (1722) was a spectacular failure, being hissed off the stage. He subsequently studied music with Antonio Lotti, and, … - Gabriella Dorio
Gabriella Dorio (born June 27, 1957 in Veggiano, Veneto) is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She first participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics, placing fourth in the 1500 metres race. She won the gold medal at the 1982 European Indoor Championships, the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships, and finally the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, beating the Romanians Doina Melinte (silver) and Maricica Puica (bronze). <BR> <BR> - Pietro D'Abano
Pietro d'Abano also known as "Petrus De Apono" or "Aponensis" (ca. 1250 - ca. 1316) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing "Conciliator Differentiarum, quœ inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur". He was eventually accused of heresy and atheism, and came before the Inquisition. - Giovanni Croce
Giovanni Croce (also Ioanne a Cruce Clodiensis, Zuanne Chiozotto) (1557 - May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi. - Ezzelino Iii da Romano
Ezzelino III da Romano was an Italian conqueror, dictator, political figure and soldier. He was the podestà of Verona between 1226 and 1230, again in 1232, and finally in 1259. He also was the podestà of Vicenza from 1236 until 1259. Finally he was the podestà of Padua between 1237 and 1256, through his regent Ansedisio Guidotti. - Giacomo Zanella
Giacomo Zanella (9 September 1820 - 17 May 1888) was an Italian poet - Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. - Filippo Pozzato
Filippo Pozzato (born September 10, 1981) is an Italian road racing cyclist with the Italian Liquigas professional cycling team. - Luigi Russolo
Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 - February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifestoes "The Art of Noises" (1913) and "Musica Futurista". - Cima da Conegliano
Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459-c. 1517) was an Italian renaissance painter. - Katia Ricciarelli
Katia Ricciarelli is an Italian soprano. She was born to a very poor family and struggled during her younger years when she studied music. She trained at the Benedict Marcello conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in "La bohème" in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in "Il trovatore" in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI’s “Voci Verdiane” award. - Moreno Argentin
Moreno Argentin is an Italian former professional cyclist (from 1981 to 1994). Born at San Donà di Piave (Veneto), he won stages in the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Suisse. Known as "Il Capo" ("The Boss") he won Liège-Bastogne-Liège four times, the La Flèche Wallonne three times and the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Giro di Lombardia once. He became Italian national champion in 1983 and 1989, and world champion in 1986. - Matteo Tosatto
Matteo Tosatto (born May 14 1974 in Castelfranco Veneto) is an Italian road racing cyclist who rides for Quick Step-Innergetic in the UCI ProTour. - Davide Rebellin
Davide Rebellin is an Italian road bicycle racer. He is most known in the cycling world for his sensational 2004 season. Riding for Gerolsteiner, he got seven victories, including an unprecedented and unrepeated treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He also scored a number of second places in top races such as Paris-Nice and Clásica de San Sebastián. However, he was not able to win the UCI Road World Cup. - Gioseffo Zarlino
Gioseffo Zarlino (January 31 or March 22, 1517 - February 4, 1590), was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning. - Domenico Campagnola
Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500 - 1564) was an Italian painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut of the Venetian Renaissance. - Andrea Zorzi
Andrea Zorzi (born July 29, 1965 in Noale, province of Venice) is a former Italian volleyball player, who won two World Championships with the Italy men's national volleyball team (1990 and 1994). A 201 cm athlete, Zorzi was en effective spiker playing usually as opposite hitter. He was popularly known as Zorro. After his debut in Bormio in 1986, he totalled 325 caps with Italian national team. He was a silver medalist in the 1996 Summer Olympics. - Giorgione
Giorgione is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, was an Italian painter, one of the seminal artists of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, and for the fact that only very few (around six) paintings are known for certain to be his work. The resulting uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting. - Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for "Corriere della Sera". His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel "Il deserto dei Tartari", translated into English as "The Tartar Steppe" - Nevio Scala
Nevio Scala (born November 22, 1947) is an Italian football coach and former player. Scala was born in Lozzo Atestino. As a player, he was a midfielder in Roma, Milan, Vicenza, Internazionale, Foggia and Monza. As a coach, he brought Reggina to Serie B in 1988, and was later called to replace Arrigo Sacchi as manager of Parma. He held that position for six years, turning the team into a major one in the Italian Serie A and winning a Cup Winners' Cup in 1992, … - Lucio Topatigh
Lucio Topatigh (born October 10, 1965) is an Italian ice hockey player. Born in Gallio, Vicenza, he spent all his career in Serie A league, with Asiago Hockey A.S. and Hockey Club Bolzano. Topatigh, also known as Il falco di Gallio ("The Hawk of Gallio"), played beginning from 1990 until 2002 in the "Blue Team", the Italian national ice hockey team. Mickey Goulet, the Italian coach, recalled Topatigh for 2006 Winter Olympics. - Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi (October 24, 1913 - March 5, 1984) was an Italian baritone. - Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. Fabris is also a three-time Italian Allround Champion. At the 2006 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's 5,000 m event, Italy's first ever Olympic medal in speed skating. - Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini (born August 5, 1988) is an Italian swimmer, and former women's 200m freestyle world record holder. - Pomponio Amalteo
Pomponio Amalteo (Motta di Livenza, 1505-San Vito al Tagliamento, 1588) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school. He was born at Motta di Livenza in Veneto. He was a pupil and son-in-law of "Il Pordenone", whose style he closely imitated; he inherited Pordenone's studio at Friuli, where he led a long career. His works consist chiefly of frescoes and altarpieces and many of which {e.g., … - Marino Basso
Marino Basso is an Italian former professional road cyclist, who won the World Cycling Championship in 1972. Basso was born at Rettorgole di Caldogno, in the Veneto. He was one of the main sprinters of 1970s, often duelling with Belgians Patrick Sercu, Guido Reybroeck and Roger de Vlaeminck, and fellow Italian Dino Zandegù. Basso won a total of 15 stages at the Giro d'Italia, 6 at the Tour de France and 6 at the Vuelta a España. - Mario Corso
Mario Corso, nicknamed Mariolino, (born August 25, 1941) is an Italian former football player and coach. Born at San Michele Extra (Verona, Veneto), Corso was an important player of Internazionale (1958-1973), winning two European Champions and two Intercontinental Cups in the 1960s. He played for the Inter Milan team known as La Grande Inter. - Niccolò da Conti
Niccolò Da Conti (also Nicolò de' Conti was a Venetian merchant and explorer, born in Chioggia, who traveled to India and Southeast Asia during the early 15th century. Da Conti departed from Venice about 1419 and established himself in Damascus, Syria, where he studied Arabic. Over a period of 25 years, he traveled as a Muslim merchant to numerous places in Asia. - Felice Casson
Felice Casson (born August 5, 1953, in Chioggia, province of Venice) is an Italian magistrate and politician, who discovered the existence of Operation Gladio, a "stay-behind" NATO anti-communist army during the Cold War, which, in Italy, took part in the strategy of tension. Passionate about jurisprudence, he graduated in Padova University, and entered the magistracy in 1980 as a prosecuting attorney. His most famous job concerns Gladio. - Giovanni Battaglin
Giovanni Battaglin is an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1981 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1981 Vuelta a España. Battaglina was born in Marostica, province of Vicenza. <br>
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