In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.

* 1689 – Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, choir director, historian, and geographer ( d. 1775 )

Anarchist historian George Woodcock reports the incident in which the important Italian social anarchist Errico Malatesta became involved " in a dispute with the individualist anarchists of Paterson, who insisted that anarchism implied no organization at all, and that every man must act solely on his impulses.

* 1667 – Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian ( b. 1607 )

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

* 1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and author ( d. 1527 )

* 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian ( b. 1483 )

* 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )

* 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian ( d. 1540 )

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527 ) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.

At that time the Italian historian Alessandro Portelli and his associates began to study the role that memory itself, whether accurate or faulty, plays in the themes and structures of oral history.

The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of Pope John XII ; John reportedly had many mistresses, including one called Joan, who was very influential in Rome during his pontificate.

Italian historian Andrea Del Col estimates that out of 51, 000 — 75, 000 cases judged by Inquisition in Italy after 1542 around 1, 250 resulted in a death sentence.

* September 7 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian ( b. 1579 )

** Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( d. 1643 )

* September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( d. 1772 )

* July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist ( b. 1519 )

* May 3 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author ( d. 1527 )

* January 11 – Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian ( b. 1531 )

* June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian ( b. 1538 )

* May 22 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian ( b. 1483 )

* December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art ( b. 1566 )

* October 10 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian ( b. 1714 )

* January 23 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar ( b. 1672 )

* May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )

He therefore took offence when the Italian scholar Polydore Vergil cast doubts on certain elements in the Arthurian legend in his Anglica Historia ( published in 1534 ).

Polidoro Virgili, commonly latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil ( or Virgil ), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino ( c. 1470 – 18 April 1555 ) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat who spent most of his life in England.

The Italian Polydore Vergil in his Anglica Historia, published in 1535 wrote that four peoples speaking four different languages inhabited Britain:

In 1890 Polydore Hochart published De L ' Authenticité Des Annales Et Des Histoires de Tacite which specifically argued that the whole of Annals had been forged by Italian author Poggio Bracciolini who lived 1380-1459.

However, in the Aeneid, Vergil claims that Mezentius fought in the Italian Wars at the time Aeneas was alive.

A Southern Italian amphora ( 6th-century BC ) depicting the triple-warrior Geryon, after whom Vergil may have modeled Erulus

His name is thought to be the origin of Mantua ( Italian Mantova, the birthplace of Vergil.

As an established author, and a representative of Italian humanist learning, Vergil was received in England as a minor celebrity, and was welcomed at court by King Henry VII.

In publishing it, Vergil reflected a growing interest in post-classical texts among German and Italian scholars.

" The English Renaissance was, he said, " like the Italian Renaissance before it, a sort of rebirth of the spirit of man ".

On 27 April 1945, when a convoy of escaping Italian Social Republic members, including Mussolini, was captured by Communist partisans, it is said that Petacci was offered the opportunity to go unmolested.

The boundaries of modern Eritrea and the entire region were established during the European colonial period between Italian, British and French colonialists as well as the lone landlocked African Empire of Abyssinia which found itself surrounded and its boundaries defined by said colonial powers.

In 2007 American director Quentin Tarantino said " New Italian cinema is just depressing.

" He received criticism from the Italian media and actress Sophia Loren who said " How dare he talk about Italian cinema when he doesn't know anything about American cinema?

By the late 1930s and the 1940s, Italian Fascism completely denounced capitalism as an obsolete and oppressive system, Mussolini in 1940 at the entry of Italy into World War II, said:

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

It is said that during World War I, Italian soldiers sang this aria to maintain their spirits.

In August 2008 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed an agreement to pay Libya $ 5 billion over 25 years – this was a " complete and moral acknowledgement of the damage inflicted on Libya by Italy during the colonial era ", the Italian prime minister said.

It has been said by some that Alamanni was the first to use blank verse in Italian poetry, but that distinction belongs rather to his contemporary Giangiorgio Trissino.

In testimony before the Venetian Inquisition, Edward de Vere was said to be fluent in Italian.

Italian " andare in giro ", " go strolling or wandering around "), was said to describe the behavior of moths.

Carlo La Vecchia, a Milan-based epidemiologist said, " Pizza could simply be indicative of a lifestyle and food habits, in other words the Italian version of a Mediterranean diet.

In 2009, in an interview for Italian TV, after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino said " You haven't asked me about the third one ", and implied that he would be making a third Kill Bill film with the words " The Bride will fight again!

Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni said in a TED Talk that she spoke to a " part-timer " with the Red Brigades who claimed that he used to sail between Lebanon and Italy during summers, ferrying Soviet weapons for a fee from the PLO to Sardinia where the weapons were distributed to " other organizations in Europe.

Furthermore, Davis accused Gould of having misrepresented a study by Henry H. Goddard ( 1866 – 1957 ) about the intelligence of Jewish, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian immigrants to the U. S., wherein Gould reported Goddard's qualifying those people as " feeble-minded "; whereas, in the initial sentence of the study, Goddard said the study subjects were atypical members of their ethnic groups, who had been selected because of their suspected sub-normal intelligence.

Zebra in English dates back to c. 1600, from Italian Zebra, perhaps from Portuguese, which in turn is said to be Congolese ( as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary ).

Agence France-Presse reported FBI spokesman Joe Parris, who said the incident was not an FBI operation, but that the subpoena had been issued at the request of the Italian and the Swiss governments.

Since Italy was suffering the " interference " of NATO, the Soviets said, it seemed that the only interference that the Italian Communists could not suffer was the Soviet one.

When Italian duchess Catherine de ' Medici married the Duke of Orléans ( Henry II of France ) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. He is sometimes said to be a French variant of the 16th-century Italian Pedrolino, but the two types have little but their names (" Little Pete ") and social stations in common.

The most transcendental works of Beatus were his Commentaries to Apocalypse, which were copied in later centuries in manuscripts called beati, about which the Italian writer Umberto Eco said: " Their splendid images gave birth to the most relevant iconographic happening in the History of Mankind ".