Giovanni Agnelli 13 August 1866 – 16 December 1945 was an Italian businessman, who founded Fiat car manufacturing in 1899. Contents 1Early life 2Business career 3Honours 4See also 5Notes 6Sources 7External links Early life The son of Edoardo Agnelli and Aniceta Frisetti, he was born in 1866 in Villar Perosa, a small town near Pinerolo, Piedmont, still the main home and burial
Marcel Bich, baron Bich French: ; Turin, 29 July 1914 – Paris, 30 May 1994 was a manufacturer and co-founder of Bic, the world’s leading producer of ballpoint pens. Contents 1Early years 2Business success 3Yacht racing and sailing 4Personal 5Death 6References 7External links Early years Bich was born in Turin, Italy on 29 July 1914
Barbara Labate born c. 1978 is an Italian entrepreneur and business executive. She co-founded and heads the first Italian comparative-pricing website Risparmio Super which, as of 2015, covers 10,000 stores and has over 300,000 users. Contents 1Biography 2Awards 3References 4External links Biography After graduating in political science at the University of Messina in 1999, Labate continued
Lucia Guerrini 1921–1990 was an Italian classical scholar, archaeologist and professor. After participating in the Phaistos excavations in Crete in 1957, she became an enthusiastic editor of the Enciclopedia dell’arte antica, classica e orientale (Encyclopaedia of Ancient, Classical and Oriental Art) under the auspices of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. From the 1950s, she taught Greek and Roman Art at the Sapienza University of Rome,
Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009, known as Mike Bongiorno (Italian pronunciation: ), was an Italian-American television host. After a few experiences in the US, he started working on Italian TV in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Italy. He was also known by the nickname il Re del Quiz (The Quiz King), and the
Franco Archibugi 18 September 1926 – 23 November 2020 was an Italian scholar in political, economic and social sciences, university professor in economic policy and spatial planning. He largely operated in Italy and in international governmental agencies; including in the field of economic development, social welfare and cooperation policy. Archibugi was the author of several works in planning theory
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio commonly known as Vitruvius, was a Roman author, architect, civil and military engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled De architectura. His discussion of perfect proportion in architecture and the human body led to the famous Renaissance drawing by Leonardo da Vinci of Vitruvian Man. He was also the one who, in 40 BC, invented the idea that all buildings
Lucius Vitruvius Cerdo was an ancient Roman architect active in Verona. His only known work is the Arco dei Gavi, a 1st-century arch in Verona, Italy. The arch is inscribed “Lucius Vitruvius Cerdo, a freedman of Lucius”, which has led to Verona being suggested as the birthplace of the earlier and better-known architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio.
Rabirius was an ancient Roman architect who lived during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. His designs included the massive Flavian Palace, situated on the Palatine Hill at Rome, and the Alban Villa at present-day Castel Gandolfo, both erected on a commission by his patron, emperor Domitian. It has been suggested that Rabirius designed the extant Arch of Titus, a commemorative arch located in summa Sacra Via honoring the joint triumph
Hyginus Gromaticus (Gromaticus from groma, a surveying device) was a Latin writer on land-surveying, who flourished in the reign of Trajan (AD 98–117). Fragments of a work on legal boundaries attributed to him will be found in C. F. Lachmann, Gromatici Veteres, i (1848) and in Carl Olof Thulin, Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum, I Opuscula agrimensorum veterum (Leipzig, 1913).[2] The ‘surname’ Gromaticus was falsely attributed to