1565 ) by Mirabello Cavalori, depicting the moment at which Lavinia's hair blazes as an omen of war but ultimate reconciliation

* 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect ( d. 1520 )

* 1621 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter ( b. 1577 )

* 1557 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter ( d. 1602 )

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

* Pietro Aquila ( c. 1630-1692 ), Italian painter

* 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter ( d. 1619 )

Agostino Carracci ( or Caracci ) ( 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602 ) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

* Niccolò dell ' Abbate ( 1509 or 1512-1571 ), Italian painter

* 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian painter ( d. 1966 )

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

In the First World War, the Cubist painter Andre Mare designed camouflage schemes for the French, British and Italian armies.

1579 ), Italian painter

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )

* 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher ( d. 1472 )

Fra Angelico ( born Guido di Pietro ; c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 ) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having " a rare and perfect talent ".

Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo ( di Pagholo ) ( March 28, 1472 – October 6, 1517 ), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.

Enrico Arrigoni ( pseudonym: Frank Brand ) was an Italian American individualist anarchist Lathe operator, house painter, bricklayer, dramatist and political activist influenced by the work of Max Stirner.

* 1691 – Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter and architect ( d. 1765 )

* 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter ( d. 1978 )

* 1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter ( d. 1653 )

* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect ( d. 1574 )

* 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter ( d. 1530 )

* 1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor ( d. 1920 )

* 1819 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter ( d. 1886 )

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

As this expansion into current languages ( mainly Italian and French ) and current topics continued, the press took on another role and made perhaps even more important contributions.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 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 ).

Francesco Andreini ( c. 1548 – 1624 ) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell ' arte plays.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901 ) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera.

Rhodesians served on behalf of the United Kingdom during World War II, mainly in the East African Campaign against Axis forces in Italian East Africa.

The dominance of the Christian Democratic party during much of the postwar period lent continuity and comparative stability to Italy's political situation, mainly dominated by the attempt of keeping the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) out of power, to maintain Cold War equilibrium in the region.

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta often offers medical or paramilitary support to Italian operations, mainly hospital trains.

Since the second post-war the Italian armed force has become more and more engaged in international peace support operations, mainly under the auspices of the United Nations.

Italian ( or lingua italiana ) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

In the European Union statistics, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 13 % of the population or 65 million people, mainly in Italy.

Support for Juventus is widespread throughout the country and abroad, mainly in countries with a significant presence of Italian immigrants.

Italian exports cover one third of total EU arms exports towards Libya, and include mainly military aircraft but also missiles and electronic equipments.

During the latter half of the 20th century, pizza become a globally accessible dish, mainly due to Italian immigrants that had brought their dishes to new people with resounding success, often in racially and culturally resistive environments.

Roberto Baggio (; born 18 February 1967 ) is a retired Italian footballer, who played mainly as a forward and as an attacking midfielder / playmaker and who is currently the President of the Technical Sector of the FIGC.

Our knowledge of 15th century Italian dances comes mainly from the surviving works of three Italian dance masters: Domenico da Piacenza, Antonio Cornazzano and Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro.

Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.

Gideon McDuck ( Gedeone de ' Paperoni in original Italian ) is presented as Scrooge McDuck's younger brother, and mainly appears in Italian comic stories ; in those stories, Gideon is the editor of the newspaper " The Cricket ", the most credible newspaper in Duckburg.