Italy On This Day

Pioneer of alternating current (AC) systems The engineer Galileo Ferraris saw himself as a scientist rather than an entrepreneur The...

Calligrapher who could read Latin changed the course of history The linguist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini was born in a village near...

First woman to be director-general of CERN Fabiola Gianotti - the would-be concert pianist who instead became a brilliant physicist ...

Musician whose works influenced development of opera Stefano Landi had an early influence on the evolution of opera Stefano Landi, an...