Italy On This Day

Dark Italian beauty won the heart of King Louis XIV A portrait of Marie Mancini by the Flemish painter Jacob Ferdinand Voet Marie Mancini, a...

First composer to have collection of his music printed A page from an early printed collection of music by Bernardo Pisano Bernardo Pisano, ...

The colourful career of a pirate who became a pope A 1713 depiction of John XXIII by French printmaker Bernard Picart Baldassare Cossa, who ...

Writer paved the way for the 1848 revolutions in Europe Filippo Buonarotti, whose writings inspired social revolutionaries across Europe Fil...

Patriotic professor was proud to serve the new Kingdom of Italy Ulisse Dini went to Paris to further his mathematical education The mathemat...

Author has mastered the science of detective fiction Marco Malvadi began his writing career with La briscola in cinque Novelist Marco Malval...

Patriotic writer was inspired by victory against the Turks Da Filicaja earned comparisons with the great poet Petrarch Vincenzo da Filicaja,...

Liberal thinker was praised by John F Kennedy Filippo Mazzei contributed to the wording of America's Declaration of Independence ...

Francesco Algarotti was a man of many talents with a colorful love life Philosopher and polymath with a playboy lifestyle The multi-...