* 1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1796 )

* 1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer ( d. 1677 )

* 1984 – L ' Aura, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer

* 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1630 )

* 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and pianist ( d. 1909 )

* 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer ( d. 1818 )

* 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( b. 1946 )

* 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1669 )

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.

Anton Diabelli, lithograph by Josef KriehuberAnton ( or Antonio ) Diabelli ( 5 September 17817 April 1858 ) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer of Italian descent.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

* 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer ( d. 1797 )

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

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double bass virtuoso and composer ( d. 1846 )

The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti was an important figure in the transition from Baroque to Classical.

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola used some of the text in his choral work Canti di prigionia ( 1938 ).

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (; 15 May 1567 ( baptized ) – 29 November 1643 ) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.

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1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

* 1550 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( baptism ) ( d. 1605 )

* 1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer ( d. 2004 )

* Italian — Bixio, Cesare Andrea: " So Cries Pierrot " ( 1925 ; voice and piano ; text by composer ); Bussotti, Sylvano: " Pierrot " ( 1949 ; voice and harp ).

Sylvano Bussotti ( born 1 October 1931 ) is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.

The conception bears a remarkable resemblance to that of Paradise Lost ; and it is nearly certain that Milton, whose sympathies with the Italian Reformation were so strong, must have been acquainted with it.

De Palma, whose background is Italian Roman Catholic, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Vivienne ( née Muti ) and Anthony Federico De Palma, an orthopedic surgeon.

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Giuseppe Peano (; 27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932 ) was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of philosophical value.

The end of aid through the Plan could have stopped the recovery but its end coincided with a crucial point in the Korea War whose demand for metal and manufactured products was a further stimulus of Italian industrial production.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

His career revival began when the young Italian director Sergio Leone boldly cast Van Cleef, whose career was still in the doldrums, as one of the two protagonists, alongside Clint Eastwood, in Leone's second western, For a Few Dollars More.

The Italian Mars Society carries out scientific divulgation activities related to the Red Planet. It cooperates with the other European Mars Society chapters to build a knowledge network whose aim is to develop the interest of European people towards Mars exploration.

So, that day, German diplomat Hans von Herwarth, whose grandmother was Jewish, informed Guido Relli, an Italian diplomat, and American chargé d ' affaires Charles Bohlen on the secret protocol regarding vital interests in the countries ' allotted " spheres of influence ", without revealing the annexation rights for " territorial and political rearrangement ".

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

Besides Arne, the other dominating force in English opera at this time was George Frideric Handel, whose opera serias filled the London operatic stages for decades, and influenced most home-grown composers, like John Frederick Lampe, who wrote using Italian models.

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

These including the epic Cabiria ( 1914 ), whose screenplay was attributed to Italian nationalist Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

Depending on the area of interest of the pupils, different subkinds exist whose programmes are mostly decided at national level, but all offer at least basic teachings in Italian language and Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, a foreign language ( usually English, but also French, German or Spanish ), History of Arts and Physical Education:

Ghino di Tacco is the Italian equivalent of the English Robin Hood, with the difference that di Tacco was a real person whose deeds as a chief of a band of robbers passed into legend.

* After crossing the Rhône River and meeting with friendly Gallic leaders headed by the northern Italian Boii, whose knowledge of the Alpine passes are of assistance to Hannibal, the Carthaginians cross the Durance River.

From this moment on, Mazzini was more of a spectator than a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento, whose reins were now strongly in the hands of the Savoyard monarch Victor Emmanuel II and his skilled prime minister, Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

Similar strains of fascination and repulsion convulsed their artists " Nonetheless, nudity and violence are more evident in British paintings set in the ancient world, and " the iconography of the odalisque ... the Oriental sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master-is almost entirely French in origin ", though taken up with enthusiasm by Italian and other painters.