* 1537 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and humanist ( d. 1604 )

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

* 1508 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist ( d. 1567 )

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

* 1463 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist ( d. 1494 )

* 1500 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ( d. 1564 )

* 1380 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist ( d. 1459 )

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.

* 1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist ( b. 1500 )

Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

An Italian humanist, Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance " universal man ".

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.

In 1457 the Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla wrote: "... the claim of ' Dionysius '... that he observed the eclipse of the sun at the hour of the Saviour's death ... is as blatant a fiction as the epistolary form of the report.

An early Italian humanist who came to Poland in the mid-15th century was Filip Callimachus.

He transformed the direction of Italian painting, moving it away from the idealizations of Gothic art, and, for the first time, presenting it as part of a more profound, natural, and humanist world.

* Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

* May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ( b. 1500 )

* February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist ( d. 1459 )

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

* February 22 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ( d. 1564 )

** February 11 – Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist ( d. 1459 )

** Niccolò de ' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist ( b. 1364 )

* August 1 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist

The Bishops of Warmia were usually Germans or Poles, although Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the later Pope Pius II, was an Italian bishop of the diocese.

It is one of the Italian male names ending in a, with others being Elia ( Elias ), Enea ( Aeneas ), Luca ( Lucas ), Mattia ( Matthias ), Nicola ( Nicholas ), Tobia ( Tobias ).

A manuscript of the text was rediscovered in Vienna in 1442 by the Italian humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini.

* Enea Talpino ( Italian, 1559 – 1626 )

Pienza was rebuilt from a village called Corsignano, which was the birthplace ( 1405 ) of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini ( Italian: Enea Silvio Piccolomini ), a Renaissance humanist born into an exiled Sienese family, who later became Pope Pius II.

It had its origins in a simple villa that was rebuilt and extravagantly enlarged in the manner of a feudal castle from 1570 onwards by Marchese Pio Enea I degli Obizzi, a member of an important Italian family of French origin.

The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that the Benito Mussolini only " used to send people on vacation ", denying the existence of Italian concentration camps, such as Rab concentration camp.

The downfall of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has, among other things, been attributed to his hubris by the international media.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

* 1958 – Silvio Mondinelli, Italian mountaineer

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.

On 30 August 2008, Gaddafi and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi signed a historic cooperation treaty in Benghazi.

In the April 2008 Italian national election, the population of Piedmont gave 46. 8 % of its votes to the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi.

* Ruby Rubacuori ( born 1993 ), Karima el Mahroug, allegedly had sex with the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi when underage

* The Rubygate, a scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi and the prostitute Karima El Mahroug – also known by the stage name Ruby Rubacuori ( Italian for " Ruby Heart-stealer ")

On March 19, 2002, the same gun was used to kill professor Marco Biagi, an economic advisor to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Silvio Berlusconi (; born 29 September 1936 ) is an Italian politician and media tycoon who served three times as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011.

In May 2003 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated the MOSE project ( Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico ), an experimental model for evaluating the performance of hollow floatable gates ; the idea is to fix a series of 78 hollow pontoons to the sea bed across the three entrances to the lagoon.

** Silvio Piola, Italian footballer ( d. 1996 )

** Silvio Piola, Italian footballer ( b. 1913 )

* November 1 – Silvio Fauner, Italian cross-country skier

* September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor

** Silvio Passerini, Italian politician ( d. 1529 )

The lodge had among its members prominent journalists, members of parliament, industrialists, and military leaders — including Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Prime Minister of Italy ; the Savoy pretender to the Italian throne Victor Emmanuel ; and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services.

Future Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was on the list, although he had not yet entered politics at the time.

Future Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was on the list, although he had not yet entered politics at the time.