Lars Tolumnius Etruscan: Larth Tulumnes, d. 437 BC was the most famous king of the wealthy Etruscan city-state of Veii, roughly ten miles northwest of Rome, best remembered for instigating a war with Rome that ended in a decisive Roman victory. Contents 1Background 2War with Rome 3Footnotes 4References 5Bibliography 6External links Background Very little
Lars Porsena Etruscan: Pursenas; sometimes spelled Lars Porsenna was an Etruscan king known for his war against the city of Rome. He ruled over the city of Clusium (Etruscan: Clevsin; modern Chiusi). There are no established dates for his rule, but Roman sources often place the war at around 508 BC. Contents 1War against Rome 2War with Aricia 3Tomb 4Fictional treatment 5References 6Sources War against Rome
In Roman mythology, Mezentius was an Etruscan king, and father of Lausus. Sent into exile because of his cruelty, he moved to Latium. He reveled in bloodshed and was overwhelmingly savage on the battlefield, but more significantly to a Roman audience he was a contemptor divum, a “despiser of the gods.” He appears in Virgil’s Aeneid, primarily book ten, where he aids Turnus in a war against Aeneas and
Bernard Castro August 11, 1904 – August 24, 1991 was the inventor of the modern convertible couch. Born in Sicily, Castro emigrated to the U.S. in 1919. He never finished high school but went to work as an upholsterer’s apprentice. In 1931 with $400 in capital he opened his first store, which eventually became a chain. At his
Secondo Campini August 28, 1904 – February 7, 1980 was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine. Campini was born at Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. In 1931 he wrote a proposal for the Italian Air Ministry on the value of jet propulsion, and in 1932 demonstrated a jet-powered boat in Venice.[2] With support of the Air Ministry, he began work with
Enrico Zeno Bernardi 20 May 1841 in Verona – 21 February 1919 in Turin was an Italian engineer and one of the Italian automobile pioneers. As a child growing up in Verona, Bernardi spent much of his free time in blacksmiths’ workshops learning the skills to put his inventive abilities into practice. In 1856, he entered a mechanical model of a steam
Archimedes of Syracuse Ancient Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; Doric Greek: ; c. 287 – c. 212 BCwas a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time, Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a
Galeazzo Alessi (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali. For a number of years he lived in Genoa. He was involved in the lay-out of the
Leon Battista Alberti Italian: ; February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472 was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has observed, “to single out one of Leon Battista’s ‘fields’ over others as somehow
Mario Rigoni Stern (1 November 1921 – 16 June 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran. Contents 1Biography 2Awards and honors 3Works 4References Biography[edit] His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 (and the following year in English as The Sergeant in the Snow), draws on his own experience as a sergeant major in the Alpini corps during the disastrous