Italy On This Day

NEW - Giuseppe Gibilisco - pole vaulter World champion who later faced doping ban Italy’s most successful pole vaulter, the Sicilian Giusep...

World champion who later faced doping ban Giuseppe Gibilisco, world champion in 2003, is the most successful pole vaulter in Italian history...

Gaetano Merola – conductor and impresario Neapolitan who founded the San Francisco Opera Gaetano Merola, a musician from Naples who emigrat...

Pietro Metastasio – poet and librettist From street entertainer to leading libretto writer Pietro Metastasio , who became Europe’s most cele...

Piero di Cosimo – painter Florentine artist achieved world wide recognition A Renaissance artist famous for his portraits and elaborate land...