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

In 1802 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, an Italian legal scholar, deflected a magnetic needle by electrostatic charges.

Giulio Alenio ( often spelled Giulio Aleni ; ; 1582-June 10, 1649 ) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar.

From 1350, Boccaccio, although less of a scholar, became closely involved with Italian humanism and also with the Florentine government.

* Vincenzo Monti, an Italian Neoclassicist poet and scholar

* 1711 – Laura Bassi, Italian scholar ( d. 1778 )

However, other scholars have found Grillo's arguments unpersuasive, arguing that Shakespeare could have derived much of this material from John Florio, an Italian scholar living in England who was later thanked by Ben Jonson for helping him get Italian details right for his play Volpone.

Francesco Petrarca ( 20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374 ), known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists.

The practice of civilian duelling, with specifically designed civilian swords such as the Italian Cinquedea and Swiss Baselard, became so popular that according to one scholar: " In France during the reign of Henry IV ( 1589 – 1610 ), more than 4, 000 French aristocrats were killed in duels in an eighteen-year period ... During the reign of Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )... in a twenty-year period 8, 000 pardons were issued for murders associated with duels.

** Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author

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

* February 20 – Laura Bassi, Italian scholar ( b. 1711 )

* October 25 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian classical scholar ( b. 1526 )

* August 28 – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar ( b. 1428 )

* June 14 – Ermolao Barbaro, Italian scholar ( b. 1454 )

* October 21 – Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar ( d. 1750 )

** Scipione Gentili, Italian legal scholar ( d. 1616 )

* October 21 – J. C. Scaliger, Italian scholar ( b. 1484 )

* January 18 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar ( b. 1470 )

** Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar ( d. 1548 )

* April 23 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar ( d. 1558 )

* probable – Marsilius of Padua, Italian scholar ( b. 1270 )

* date unknown – Donato Acciaioli, Italian scholar ( d. 1478 )

These types of claims are increasing and Italian courts have recently allowed them against banks that continue to apply compound interest on retail clients ’ current account overdrafts.

The Corsican language has been influenced by the languages of the major powers taking an interest in Corsican affairs ; earlier by those of the Medieval Italian powers: Tuscany ( 828 – 1077 ), Pisa ( 1077 – 1282 ) and Genoa ( 1282 – 1768 ), more recently by France ( 1768 – present ), which, since 1789, has promulgated the official Parisian French.

This Hungarian connection was further developed recently by linguist Prof. Mario Alinei, Emeritus Professor of Italian Languages at the University of Utrecht: Etrusco: una forma arcaica di ungherese, ( 2003 ) Bologna, Il Mulino.

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.

A group of Italian exiles were to enter Piedmont from Switzerland and spread the revolution there, while Giuseppe Garibaldi, who had recently joined the Giovine Italia, was to do the same from Genoa.

Gioachino Rossini had recently retired and Vincenzo Bellini had died shortly before the premier of Lucia leaving Donizetti as " the sole reigning genius of Italian opera ".

When established in 1936, Italian East Africa covered the former Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the recently conquered Ethiopia.

Built on a large area of council-owned land, the city council and Italian national government were recently involved in a trade-off with the Putin government in Moscow, exchanging the piece of land on which the church stands, for, albeit indirectly, a military barracks near Bari's central railway station.

Until very recently the Italian police ( including the Carabinieri ) operated only Italian-made vehicles, but that changed with the introduction of Land Rover Defenders and Subarus into service.

A second collected edition was recently reprinted and sold in English, Spanish, and Italian ; and distributed throughout Europe, the U. S., and Canada.

Latin locus ( place ) was absent and represented by the hapax slaagid ( place ), which Italian linguist Alberto Manco has recently referred to a local surviving toponym.

Annually since 1954, the town has held the Weed Italian Carnevale in June or July, although recently dropping " Italian " from its name while maintaining the Italian spelling of carnival and the traditional bocce ball tournaments.

The restaurants are primarily Italian, but there are also restaurants and diners that specialize in American food, Chinese food, and more recently Japanese food.

: Over two dozen of Italian descent had been elected as state governors, most recently Paul Cellucci of Massachusetts, John Baldacci of Maine, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Donald Carcieri of Rhode Island, Joseph Manchin of West Virginia, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Andrew Cuomo of New York.

In accordance with his frequent practice when writing new works, Handel adapted existing compositions for use in Messiah, in this case drawing on two recently completed Italian duets and one written twenty years previously.

" However, recently Harvey has said that Smith is " so energising to see and so passionate with what she's doing " and has also drawn inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki, and Neil Young.

In some Central Italian regions, a once-popular and recently rediscovered fancy food is the bagiana, a soup of fresh or dried fava beans seasoned with onions and beet leaves stir-fried, before being added to the soup, in olive oil and lard ( or bacon or cured ham fat ).

And recently Anicia in Rome has published an Italian translation of four of the books.

The Holy Prepuce of Calcata is worthy of special mention, as the reliquary containing the Holy Foreskin was paraded through the streets of this Italian village as recently as 1983 on the Feast of the Circumcision, which was formerly marked by the Roman Catholic Church around the world on January 1 each year.