* 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist ( d. 2005 )

* November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist ( d. 1990 )

* July 8 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, novelist ( b. 1881 )

** Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic ( d. 1972 )

** Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, poet, and novelist ( d. 1956 )

* December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet ( b. 1504 )

** Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist ( d. 1562 )

** Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist ( b. 1480 )

* November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet ( d. 1573 )

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873 ) was an Italian poet and novelist.

Another exception was Alberto Franchetti's 1906 opera La figlia di Iorio which was a close rendering of a highly successful play by its librettist, Gabriele D ' Annunzio, a celebrated Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist of the day.

In 1920 she posed for Picasso, and she had affairs with the American novelist Ernest Hemingway and Gabriel D ' Annunzio ( an early Italian Fascist ).

The Italian novelist Dino Buzzati was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli.

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

Camillo Boito, Arrigo's older brother, was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist.

These men, along with academics like novelist and accomplished critic, Dr. Josephine Gattuso Hendin of New York University, have taught Italian American studies at such institutions as the City University of New York, John D. Calandra Institute, Queens College ( CUNY ), and Stony Brook University, as well as Brooklyn College, where Dr. Robert Viscusi founded the Italian American Writers Association, and is an author and American Book Award winner, himself.

As a result of the efforts of magazines like VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, " Ambassador ", a publication of the National Italian American Foundation and Italian Americana, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright, and numerous authors young and old, as well as early immigrant pioneer writers like poet Emanuel Carnevali (" Furnished Rooms ") and novelist Pietro DiDonato, author of Christ in Concrete, Italian Americans have been reading more works of their own writers.

A supplemental website at www. italianamericana. com to the journal " Italian Americana ", edited by novelist Christine Palamidessi Moore, also offers historical articles, stories, memoirs, poetry, and book reviews.

Anton Giulio Barrili ( 1836 – 1908 ), Italian novelist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal profession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa.

Mr. and Mrs. Piero De Luise will honor Italian Consul and Mrs. Emilio Bassi at a cocktail party Tuesday, May 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. in their home.

* 1862 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( d. 1911 )

Genscher also was an active participant in the further development of the European Union, taking an active part in the Single European Act Treaty negotiations in the mid 1980s, as well as the joint publication of the Genscher-Colombo plan with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Emilio Colombo which advocated further integration and deepening of relations in the European Union towards a more federalist European State.

Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans.

* 1914 – Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer ( d. 1992 )

* April 25 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( b. 1862 )

** Emilio Diena, Italian stamp expert ( d. 1941 )

* August 21 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( d. 1911 )

* April 22 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1905 )

* March 11 – Emilio de ' Cavalieri, Italian composer ( b. c. 1550 )

** Emilio de ' Cavalieri, Italian composer ( d. 1602 )

Emilio Lussu ( December 4, 1890-March 5, 1975 ) was an Italian soldier, politician and a writer.

The Bandiera Brothers ( in Italian: Fratelli Bandiera ) were Italian patriots, Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, ( 1811 – 1844 and 1819 – 1844 ).

Much early embryology came from the work of the great Italian anatomists: Aldrovandi, Aranzio, Leonardo da Vinci, Marcello Malpighi, Gabriele Falloppio, Girolamo Cardano, Emilio Parisano, Fortunio Liceti, Stefano Lorenzini, Spallanzani, Enrico Sertoli, Mauro Rusconi, etc.

Though baptized as Emilio Stanley by Italian missionaries in his youth, he has been known for all intents and purposes as his name.

Italian Historian Emilio Gentile has studied the roots and development of the concept and proposed a division of two types of religions of politics: a civil religion and a Political religion.

Emilio Giuseppe " Nino " Farina ( 30 October 1906, Turin, Piedmont-30 June 1966 ) was an Italian racing driver.

New Mexico architect Alexander Girard, Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, and shoe designer Beth Levine were called in, and with this new creative talent, Braniff began the " End of the Plain Plane " campaign.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Pisa are Italian Presidents Giovanni Gronchi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ; Haitian President René Préval ; Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas ; Pope Clement XII ; Italian Prime Ministers Sidney Sonnino, Giuliano Amato and Massimo D ' Alema ; Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi ; Italian political leaders Carlo Sforza, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Alessandro Natta, Enrico Letta, Marcello Pera, Fabio Mussi and Sandro Bondi ; Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese ; Roman Catholic Cardinals Pietro Accolti, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Francesco Barberini, Francesco Martelli and Bandino Panciatici ; Roman Catholic Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini ; Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci ; Nobel Laureates in Physics Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia ; anatomist Atto Tigri ; art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ; author Antonio Tabucchi ; civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley ; computer scientist Roberto Di Cosmo ; diplomats Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo and Marcello Spatafora ; director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli ; economist Luigi Bodio ; egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini ; electron microscopist Clara Franzini-Armstrong ; geneticist Guido Pontecorvo ; historians Camillo Porzio and Carlo Ginzburg ; intellectual Adriano Sofri ; international civil servant Francesco Cappè ; journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani ; jurists Piero Calamandrei, Francesco Carrara and Antonio Cassese ; linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi ; manager Pier Francesco Guarguaglini ; mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Giovanni Ceva, Enrico Betti, Guido Fubini, Vito Volterra and Luigi Fantappiè ; neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi ; philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Anna Camaiti Hostert ; physicians Francesco Redi, Vincenzo Chiarugi and François Carlo Antommarchi ; physicists Adolfo Bartoli, Luigi Puccianti, Antonio Pacinotti, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Franco Rasetti and Luca Gammaitoni ; playwright and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ; racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti ; surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri ; tenor Andrea Bocelli ; writer Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.

Yet other readers have expressed the opinion that Q — apart from radicalism, post-modernism, and allegories — is above all an adventure novel, a swashbuckler in the very Italian tradition of Emilio Salgari and other popular feuilleton authors.

Born in Rome on June 14, 1955, Massimo Introvigne reported in a partially autobiographical paper presented at the 2008 yearly conference of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago how his interest in non-Christian religions dates back to his reading as a young boy of the novels of Emilio Salgari, Rudyard Kipling, and Luigi Ugolini ( 1891 – 1980, the author of the 1950 Italian novel L ' isola non trovata ), which included references to Hinduism, Islam and other religions not generally well-known at that time in Italy.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini.

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

This rumour has been attributed by some to a rivalry between the German and the Italian schools of music.

Dürer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

* Italian painter Vinzela has dedicated his artwork " Saharov " to the great personality of human right activist.

Chris Prouty observes that " a failure of nerve on the part of Menelik has been alleged by both Italian and Ethiopian sources.

Traditionally, the location of Charybdis has been associated with the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily and opposite the rock on the Italian mainland identified with Scylla.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

* Theatres des Vampires, an Italian extreme gothic metal band has produced a video single called " Carmilla " for its album Moonlight Waltz

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

Now ( from 10 December 2007 ), in order of Italian legislation system, the law is before the House and has to be passed also by the Camera dei Deputati, the second house of Italian Parliament, to become an effective law.

To date, no such law has been enacted, however scholars demonstrated that class actions ( azioni rappresentative ) do not contrast with Italian principles of civil procedure.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

One of the characteristics of Italian, and variable in Tuscan, is the retention of the-re infinitive ending as in Latin mittere, " send ", which is lost in Corsican, which has mette / metta, " to put.

Columbus named this island as Savona after the Italian city of the same name but the use during years has eliminated the letter v.

Italian " avere " and " essere " as auxiliaries for forming compound tenses are used similarly to French " avoir " and " être ", Spanish only retains " haber " and has done away with " ser " in forming compound tenses, which are no longer used in either Spanish or Portuguese.

* Italian mainly has the acute and the grave ( à, è / é, ì, ò / ó, ù ), typically to indicate a stressed syllable that would not be stressed under the normal rules of pronunciation but sometimes also to distinguish between words that are otherwise spelled the same way ( e. g. " e ", and ; " è ", is ).