In the May 2001 parliamentary elections, he was again the centre-right candidate for Prime Minister and won against the centre-left candidate Francesco Rutelli.

Lawmakers approved the expansion of the US military base Caserma Ederle at the end of January, but the victory was so narrow that Deputy Prime Minister Francesco Rutelli criticised members of the coalition who had not supported the government.

Several members of the government, having been in office just three days, resigned in protest ; among them were Francesco Rutelli, Minister of the Environment and Vincenzo Visco, Minister of Finance.

* Francesco Rutelli ( European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party )

On May 9, 2001, just two days before the general elections in Italy, during his daily prime time 10-minute TV show Il Fatto, broadcast on Rai Uno, Biagi interviewed the popular actor and director Roberto Benigni, who gave a hilarious talk about Silvio Berlusconi declaring his preference for the other candidate, Francesco Rutelli from the Olive Tree coalition.

* Secretary: Mario Pannunzio ( 1956 – 1959 ), Leopoldo Piccardi ( 1959 – 1962 ), Bruno Villabruna ( 1962 – 1963 ), Marco Pannella ( 1963 – 1967 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1967 – 1968 ), Mauro Mellini ( 1968 – 1969 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1969 – 1970 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1970 – 1971 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1971 – 1973 ), Giulio Ercolessi ( 1973 – 1974 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1974 – 1976 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1976 – 1978 ), Jean Fabre ( 1978 – 1979 ), Giuseppe Rippa ( 1979 – 1980 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1980 – 1981 ), Marco Pannella ( 1981 – 1983 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1983 – 1984 ), Giovanni Negri ( 1984 – 1988 ), Sergio Stanzani ( 1988 – 1989 )

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Marco Pannella ( 1976 – 1978 ), Emma Bonino ( 1978 ), Marco Mellini ( 1979 ), Marco Pannella ( 1979 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1979 – 1982 ), Emma Bonino ( 1982 – 1983 ), Marco Pannella ( 1983 – 1984 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1984 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1984 – 1988 ), Giuseppe Calderisi ( 1988 – 1992 ), Marco Pannella ( 1992 – 1994 )

On 13 May 2001, led by Francesco Rutelli, who ran in ticket with Piero Fassino, the coalition lost the general elections against Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right House of Freedoms coalition.

At the 1989 European Parliament election there were two competing Green parties: the Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens, formed mainly by Radicals, including Adele Faccio, Adelaide Aglietta, Marco Taradash and Francesco Rutelli.

After the end of the alliance with the Socialists, a much moderate outfit, the party shifted far to the left, prompting the exit of leading members as Edo Ronchi, Gianni Mattioli, Luigi Manconi, Massimo Scalia and Franco Corleone ( Francesco Rutelli and Carlo Ripa di Meana had abandoned the party before, respectively in 1997 and in 1999 ).

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Gianni Mattioli ( 1987 – 1989 ), Laura Cima ( 1989 – 1991 ), Massimo Scalia ( 1991 – 1992 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1992 – 1993 ), Gianni Mattioli ( 1993 – 1994, deputy-leader of the PDS group in 1994 – 1996 ), Anna Maria Procacci ( 1996 – 2001 ), Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio ( 2001 – 2006 ), Angelo Bonelli ( 2006 – 2008 )

François Bayrou of the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) and Francesco Rutelli of Italy's Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy serve as the first two co-presidents.

The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former Mayor of Rome and former candidate for Prime Minister of Italy during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition.

The Daisy, led by Francesco Rutelli ( who was also candidate for Prime Minister for the whole centre-left ), won 14. 5 % of the vote, only two points less than the Democrats of the Left ( DS ).

* Former Radicals: Francesco Rutelli, Roberto Giachetti

* Former Greens: Paolo Gentiloni, Ermete Realacci, Francesco Rutelli, Gianni Vernetti

Many Rutelliani, including Francesco Rutelli himself, eventually left the Democratic Party in order to found the Alliance for Italy on 11 November 2009.

Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli also revealed that Valentino contributed to the restoration of the Temple with a donation of 200, 000 euros.

* 2009: Former members of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy led by Francesco Rutelli break away from the Democratic Party to form the Alliance for Italy.

* Democratic Party: Antonio Maccanico ( ex-PRI ), Valerio Zanone ( ex-PLI ), Francesco Rutelli ( ex-Rad, ex-Green ), Enzo Bianco ( ex-PRI ), Paolo Gentiloni ( ex-Green ), Gianni Vernetti ( ex-Green ), Linda Lanzillotta ( ex-PSI ), Beatrice Rangoni Machiavelli ( ex-PLI )

In the autumn of 1993, Fini ran for mayor of Rome, garnering enough votes to participate in a runoff election that resulted in the victory of Francesco Rutelli.

Candidate as vice-premier of The Olive Tree coalition in a ticket with former Rome Mayor Francesco Rutelli for the 2001 general elections in Italy won by the House of Freedoms rival coalition, he was still re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

It is notable that, in the 2001 elections, it was Berlusconi who refused to meet the centre-left candidate, Francesco Rutelli.

On September 26, 2007, Sarcona Center signed a contract with the Italian culture minister, Francesco Rutelli, to return arts stolen from Italy.

Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991 ) was a Sicilian-born American film director.

Capra was born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, a village near Palermo.

Francesco Sforza was born in San Miniato, Tuscany, one of the seven illegitimate sons of the condottiero Muzio Sforza and Lucia da Torsano.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

A second grandchild, Francesco, was born in 1366, but died before his second birthday.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Pope Pius III ( 29 May 1439 – 18 October 1503 ), born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, was Pope from 22 September to 18 October 1503.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Pope Sixtus IV ( 21 July 1414 – 12 August 1484 ), born Francesco della Rovere, was Pope from 1471 to 1484.

Francesco was born to a family of modest means from Liguria, Italy, the son of Leonardo della Rovere and Luchina Monleoni.

* August 12 – Francesco Crispi, Italian Prime Minister ( born 1819 )

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

* Francesco Marino Mannoia ( born 1951 ) started to collaborate in October 1989.

Notable people born here include the former presidents of the Italian Republic, Antonio Segni and Francesco Cossiga, and Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the Italian Communist Party.

* Francesco Panetta ( born 1963 ), former long-distance runner

Pope Leo XII ( 22 August 1760 – 10 February 1829 ), born Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga, was Pope from 1823 to 1829.

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola was born on September 21, 1452 in Ferrara.

Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi ( baptized Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius ), was born in Rome, Italy on January 24, 1752, and the following day baptized in the local church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso.

* Francesco Maurolico, astronomer and mathematician, of Greek origin, born in Messina in 1494.

* Francesco Vescovi known as “ Cecco ” ( born 1964 ), a former basketball player who grew up in Varese.

* Archduke Francesco Leopoldo of Austria, born 15 December 1794 ;

Pope Pius VIII ( 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830 ), born Francesco Saverio Castiglioni was Pope in 1829 and 1830.

The two brothers were born in Venice and were sons of Baron Francesco Bandiera, an admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and were themselves members of that service.

Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro.