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Italy historical figures
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27 figures
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, inventor & scientist
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Julius Caesar
General & dictator
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy
Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist & engineer
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer & physicist
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Michelangelo
Sculptor, painter & architect
Sandro Botticelli
Painter
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Marco Polo
Merchant & explorer
Christopher Columbus
Explorer & navigator
Giuseppe Verdi
Opera composer
Guglielmo Marconi
Inventor and electrical engineer
Enrico Fermi
Physicist
Niccolò Machiavelli
Political theorist and diplomat
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian and philosopher
Primo Levi
Writer and Holocaust survivor
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Girolamo Savonarola
Friar & political leader of Florence
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Cosimo de' Medici
Banker & de facto ruler of Florence
Lorenzo de' Medici
De facto ruler of Florence & patron of the arts
Cesare Borgia
Cardinal & military commander
Pope Julius II
Pope & patron of the arts
Filippo Brunelleschi
Architect & engineer
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Donatello
Sculptor
Raphael
Painter & architect
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Titian
Painter
Caravaggio
Painter
Augustus
First Roman emperor
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher
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