The Italian poet Dante says of Aristotle in the first circles of hell,

* 1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet ( d. 1484 )

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

* Serafino dell ' Aquila ( 1466-1500 ), Italian poet

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

* 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet ( b. 1458 )

* Antonio Abati ( died 1667 ), Italian poet

The Italian scholar and poet Petrarch is credited with being the pursuit's first and most famous aficionado.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

* 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* 1876 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor ( d. 1944 )

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

For instance, Erasmus became an intimate friend of an Italian Humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini, poet and " professor of humanity " in Paris.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* 1778 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet ( d. 1827 )

Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from a mental institution, the character is a combination of La stradas Gelsomina, Pinocchio, and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

* 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet ( d. 1977 )

* 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet ( d. 1638 )

* 1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.

An entire theater had been set up for his diversion, with a 200-man Italian orchestra under the well-known Sarti.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

Their letters suggest that both Mozart and his father, being Austrians who resented the special place that Italian composers had in the courts of the Austrian princes, blamed the Italians in general and Salieri in particular for all of Mozart's difficulties in establishing himself in Vienna.

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

By 1686 he had definitely established the " Italian overture " form ( second edition of Dal male il bene ), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary form air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary form or da capo type of air.

Although as a result Aston Martin had to make 60 members of the workforce redundant, Gauntlett bought a stake in Italian styling house Zagato, and resurrected its collaboration with Aston Martin.

He also would have had access to some Italian works in Germany, but the two visits he made to Italy had an enormous influence on him.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

Even this version had room for improvement, leading British Aerospace and the Italian firm Alenia to develop advanced versions of Sparrow with better performance and improved electronics as the BAe Skyflash and Alenia Aspide, respectively.

The concept was that because Italian bond futures had a less liquid market, in the short term Italian bond futures would have a higher return than U. S. bonds, but in the long term, the prices would converge.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

When Gianfranco Fini visited Israel in late November 2003 in the function of Italian Deputy Prime Minister, he labeled the racial laws issued by the fascist regime in 1938 as " infamous ", as also Giorgio Almirante, historic leader of MSI, had done before.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

General Oreste Baratieri, commander of the Italian forces, knew the Ethiopian forces had been living off the land, and once the supplies of the local peasants were exhausted, Emperor Menelik's army would begin to melt away.

However, the three leading Italian brigades had become separated during their overnight march and at dawn were spread across several miles of very difficult terrain.

Imogen has noticed her ring on Iachimo's finger and demands to know from where the Italian got the jewel.

Adu was noticed by Italian soccer clubs, including Inter Milan, who discussed a six-figure offer for him that was turned down by his mother on the advice of his agents.

In his autobiography, Haile Selassie reports that when Italian Baron Raimondo Franchetti landed his plane in a field outside of Addis Alem, onlookers " noticed that inside it were a machine-gun as well as rifles and many cartridges " — implying these were to arm Iyasu's followers.

He talent was noticed by singer Valeria Lynch, who hired Bravo and who, in 1995 introduced her to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Throughout the summer of 1960, minor landslides and earth movements were noticed ; however instead of heeding these warning signs, the Italian government chose to sue the handful of journalists reporting the problems for " undermining the social order.

His subjects were gleaned from the free actions of the splendid Italian people noticed in his walks, and afterwards baptised with such mythological names as best fitted them.

When Arai Hakuseki, a Japanese scholar, interrogated the Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti in 1708, he noticed that " Sinae ", the Latin plural word Sidotti used to refer to China, was similar to Shina, the Japanese pronunciation of 支那.

Joachim started his professional career at the age of 18 for a small Italian cycling team, Sonego Sport, After racing with them for three months, he was noticed by a bigger, De Nardi who were interesting him.

Born at Orvieto, Barzini started his career as a journalist in 1898, working for minor Italian magazines and was almost immediately noticed and hired by Luigi Albertini, then director of the Corriere della Sera, the most prestigious Italian newspaper.

On board a tug boat that had been escorting the Hartford out of the harbour, the Italian Coast Guard liaison noticed that Hartford was not following the normal northern course out of La Maddalena.

Born in the Italian province of Treviso in 1757, he was educated by his grandfather and his artistic talent was quickly noticed, especially by a Senator by the name of Giovanni Falieri who introduced him to the sculptor Torretto, who he would apprentice for two years.

Despite the fact that the Genoese assimilated and shifted their language into Valencian and, later on, Spanish ( which are both the languages currently spoken on the islet ), the Genoese descent of the settlers can still be noticed today in the surnames of Italian origin common on the islet.

The director noticed her talent and cast her in the main female role in his next film, Pad Italije where she played Veronika, the daughter of a wealthy Slavic local from the Dalmatian coast who sided with Italian occupiers.