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Fascinating stories from each day of the year about the people and events that have shaped the culture and history of Italy

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Showing posts with label 1871. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1871. Show all posts

18 July 2019

Giacomo Balla - painter

Work captured light, movement and speed Giacomo Balla's work Le mani del violinista - The Hands of the Violinist - stemmed fr...

28 September 2018

Pietro Badoglio - soldier and politician

Controversial general who turned against Mussolini Pietro Badoglio was Mussolini's Chief of Staff from 1925 to 1940 Marshal Piet...

27 September 2018

Grazia Deledda - Nobel Prize winner

First Italian woman to be honoured Grazia Deledda was the first Italian woman to win a Nobel Prize The novelist Grazia Deledda, who ...

21 July 2018

Guglielmo Ferrero - journalist and historian

Nobel prize nominee who opposed Fascism Guglielmo Ferrero is best known for his five-volume history of power and collapse of the Roman...

11 September 2016

Scipione Borghese - adventurer

Nobleman from Ferrara won Peking to Paris car race Scipione Borghese (left) and journalist Luigi Barzini pictured with Borghese's ...

3 July 2016

Ulisse Stacchini - architect

Designer behind two famous Milan landmarks Ulisse Stacchini Ulisse Stacchini, the architect who designed two of Milan's most famo...

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