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Showing posts with label Lake Maggiore. Show all posts
15 April 2023

Italy’s first nuclear reactor opens

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Facility based on pioneer Enrico Fermi’s historic Chicago-Pile series The Ispra-1 reactor was the first nuclear reactor to be built on Itali...
6 January 2019

Baldassare Verazzi - painter

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Piedmontese artist famous for image of uprising in Milan Verazzi's  Episodio delle Cinque Giornate  (Combattimento a Palazzo Litta)...
24 February 2018

Cesare “Caesar” Cardini – restaurateur

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Italian emigrant who invented Caesar salad Cesare 'Caesar' Cardini with the ingredients for his famous salad The restaur...
8 December 2017

Johann Maria Farina - perfumier

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Emigrant to Germany who invented Eau de Cologne Johann Maria Farina gave his new fragrance the name Eau de Cologne Johann Maria Fa...
30 April 2017

Luigi Russolo – painter and composer

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Futurist artist who invented 'noise music' Luigi Russolo, pictured at the time he published his manifesto, in 1916 Luigi R...
7 November 2016

Luigi Riva - an Azzurri great

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Italy's record goalscorer and hero of Cagliari Striker Luigi 'Gigi' Riva pictured during Cagliari's victorious 1969-7...
2 October 2016

Saint Charles Borromeo

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Great reformer earned appreciation after his death This painting of Charles Borromeo is in the St. Hermes Church in Ronse, Belgium C...
15 August 2016

Gianfranco Ferré - fashion designer

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Sought to create clothes for real women  Gianfranco Ferré Gianfranco Ferré, who became one of the biggest names in Italian fashio...