The Italian scholar Maggiani recently showed that on an Etruscan tomb dedicated to Racvi Satlnei in Bologna ( 5th century BC ) there is a writing that says: " aivastelmunsl

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 )

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

The Italian poet Dante says of Aristotle in the first circles of hell,

* 1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet ( d. 1484 )

* 1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti, Italian poet and author ( d. 1803 )

* Serafino dell ' Aquila ( 1466-1500 ), Italian poet

Mozart wrote to his father in May 1783 about Salieri and Lorenzo Da Ponte, the court poet: " You know those Italian gentlemen ; they are very nice to your face!

* 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet ( b. 1458 )

* Antonio Abati ( died 1667 ), Italian poet

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

* 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet ( d. 1707 )

* 1876 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor ( d. 1944 )

* The Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.

For instance, Erasmus became an intimate friend of an Italian Humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini, poet and " professor of humanity " in Paris.

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* 1778 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer and poet ( d. 1827 )

Starring Roberto Benigni as Ivo Salvini, a madcap poetic figure newly released from a mental institution, the character is a combination of La stradas Gelsomina, Pinocchio, and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

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.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

* 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet ( d. 1977 )

* 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet ( d. 1638 )

* 1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1907 )