* 1939 – Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman

* 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy ( b. 1873 )

It was not until the work of the Italian statesman Bettino Ricasoli that the modern " Chianti recipe " as a Sangiovese-based wine would take shape.

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.

Luigi Alamanni ( sometimes spelt Alemanni ) ( 6 March 1495 – 18 April 1556 ) was an Italian poet and statesman.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492 ) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.

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

* 1804 – Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman ( d. 1878 )

* 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman ( d. 1928 )

* May 24 – Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea, Italian soldier and statesman ( b. 1809 )

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

* June 10 – Mercurino Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist ( d. 1530 )

* November 18 – Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Italian general and statesman ( d. 1878 )

* June 22 – Giuseppe Mazzini Italian patriot, statesman, and writer ( d. 1872 )

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

* March 6 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman ( d. 1556 )

* May 30 – Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman ( d. 1754 )

* April 18 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and statesman ( b. 1495 )

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* June 21 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman ( b. 1469 )

* March 12 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman killed by an unknown assassin .( b. 1475 )

* September 25 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman ( b. 1447 )

** Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman ( d. 1496 )

One of his best men was former Prime Minister and leader of the Italian Socialist Party Bettino Craxi.

But the President was influenced by other political leaders like Giovanni Spadolini of the Italian Republican Party and Bettino Craxi of the Italian Socialist Party, and the PCI remained out of the government.

It detailed the payment of US $ 7 million by the president of ENI, Florio Fiorini through Roberto Calvi to the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ) leader Claudio Martelli on behalf of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983 – 1987.

The office existed yet in the Italian states before the Italian unification ( 1861 ), with various names ( e. g., in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies the name was " intendente "); the born of the office, in Italian system, dates from the times on Napoleonic occupation on Italy ( 1802 ), so it celebrates 200 years of life in 2002 ; the current name dates from 1861, under the government of Bettino Ricasoli, when a law extended the Kingdom of Sardinia administrative system to whole Italy.

Benedetto " Bettino " Craxi () ( 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000 ) was an Italian politician, head of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993, the first socialist President of the Council of Ministers of Italy from 1983 to 1987.

On 16 July 1976, Bettino Craxi was elected to the vacant Italian Socialist Party chairman position, ending years of factional fighting within the party.

To this day, some people ( especially those who were close to Craxi ) argue that some parties ( such as the Italian Communist Party ) were left untouched, while the leaders of then ruling coalition ( and in particular Bettino Craxi ) were wiped off the political map.

The powerful secretary of the Italian Socialist Party, Bettino Craxi, is often taken as a typical example, since he had a permanent residence in an expensive hotel in Rome's centre and also owned a villa in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Bettino Craxi called Mario Chiesa mariuolo, or " villain ", a " wild splinter " of the otherwise clean Italian Socialist Party.

The day after that, Bettino Craxi, leader of the Italian Socialist Party, was officially accused of corruption.

They considered themselves the true heirs of Pietro Nenni, Giuseppe Saragat and Bettino Craxi, continued to declare themselves ' Socialists ' and were sided with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right because they saw the Italian centre-left as too much hegemonized by the Democrats of the Left, heir of the Italian Communist Party, which was the harshest rival of the Italian Socialists from the Fifties to the Nineties.

Acting under directives from Bettino Craxi, Italian Prime Minister, and foreign minister Giulio Andreotti, Martini claims to have brokered the accord that lead to the peaceful transition of powers.

* Bettino Craxi, Italian statesman and former prime minister, sentenced in absentia to 27 years in jail in Italy, who previously fled to Hammamet in Tunisia in 1994, and remained a fugitive there, protected by Ben Ali's regime.

Due also to conflict with Bettino Craxi, Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), the other main party in Italy at the time, Andreotti did not hold any further government position until 1983.

Bettino Ricàsoli, 1. º Barone Ricàsoli, 1. º Conte di Brolio ( March 29, 1809, Florence – October 23, 1880 ; ) was an Italian statesman.

The party was founded in 2001 by the merger of the Socialist Party of Gianni De Michelis, the Socialist League of Claudio Martelli and Bobo Craxi ( son of Bettino ), who had been founding members of the Italian Democratic Socialists in 1998, other splinters of that party, as Mauro Del Bue, and former members of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.

In 1967, the Denominazione di origine controllata ( DOC ) regulation set by the Italian government firmly established the " Ricasoli formula " of a Sangiovese-based blend with 10-30 % Malvasia and Trebbiano.

* The Italian winemaking company Ricasoli is founded.

The Vatican accepted his proposal, but the Italian Chamber proved refractory, and, though dissolved by Ricasoli, returned more hostile than before.

On changing his views on this policy, he became president of the lower chamber in the first Italian Parliament, and in March 1862 succeeded Ricasoli in the government, retaining for himself the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior.

Four years later, on the outbreak of war against Austria, he entered the Ricasoli cabinet as minister of navy, and there he insisted with admiral Carlo Persano on the attack against the island of Lissa -- as a revenge for the Italian defeat of Custoza.