Girolamo Savonarola Italian: ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498 was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule and the exploitation of
Massimo Salvadori, or Max William Salvadori Paleotti 16 June 1908, in London – 1992 was a British-Italian historian and anti-Fascist. Salvadori was educated at the University of Geneva and the University of Rome. He was involved in the anti-Fascist movement in Italy before World War II. Imprisoned from 1931-32 as a result of his political activities, Salvadori fled Italy for
Nicola Sacco pronounced ; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927 and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pronounced ; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were electrocuted in the electric chair at Charlestown State
Nicola Gabrini 1313 – 8 October 1354, commonly known as Cola di Rienzo (Italian pronunciation: ) or Rienzi, was an Italian medieval politician and popular leader, who styled himself as “tribune of the Roman people”. For his demagogic rhetoric, popular appeal and anti-establishment (as nobility) sentiment, some sources considered him an earlier populist and proto-fascist figure. Having advocated the abolition of Papal power and the Unification of Italy, Cola
Matteo Ricci Italian pronunciation: ; Latin: Mattheus Riccius Maceratensis; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610, was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 map of the world written in Chinese characters. He is considered a Servant of God by the Catholic
The Mortara case Italian: caso Mortara was an Italian cause célèbre that captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and 1860s. It concerned the Papal States’ seizure of a six-year-old boy named Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant’s testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy when he
Francesco Morosini 26 February 1619 – 16 January 1694 was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was a member of a famous noble Venetian family (the Morosini family) which produced several Doges and generals. He “dressed always in red from top to toe and
Filippo Mazzei Italian pronunciation: , but sometimes erroneously cited with the name of Philip Mazzie; Poggio a Caiano, December 25, 1730 – Pisa, March 19, 1816 was an Italian physician, winemaker, and arms dealer. A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, Mazzei acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War. Contents 1Biography 2Mazzei letter 3Acknowledgment 4Legacy 5See also
Enrico Mattei Italian pronunciation: ; 29 April 1906 – 27 October 1962 was an Italian public administrator. After World War II he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency Agip, a state enterprise established by the Fascist regime. Instead Mattei enlarged and reorganized it into the National Fuel Trust, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI). Under his
Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti was an Italian canonist. Biography[edit] He was born in Perugia in 1522. He graduated as a doctor of law in 1546, and taught law shortly afterwards (1547 or 1548) in the university of his native town. Except for two short sojourns in Rome, he passed the remainder of his life in Perugia, in the study of law and belles-lettres. He