* 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1926 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian writer and director

* 1862 – Emilio Salgari, Italian writer ( d. 1911 )

* 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and journalist ( b. 1920 )

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

* 1937 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist, writer, and politician ( b. 1891 )

* According to culinary writer Giuliano Bugialli, the term comes from the Italian bagno maria, named after Maria de ' Cleofa, who developed the technique in Florence in the sixteenth century.

Ampelographers find clues about which grape varieties were popular at the time in the writings of Italian writer Cosimo Villifranchi who noted that Canaiolo was widely planted variety in the area along with Sangiovese, Mammolo and Marzemino.

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer ( d. 1783 )

* 1944 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer ( b. 1876 )

* 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer ( b. 1504 )

* 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1867 )

* 1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer ( b. 1313 )

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

* 1534 – Giovanni de ' Bardi, Italian writer ( d. 1612 )

Consequently, no orthodox Muslim writer accepts the Gospel of Barnabas as transmitting the authentic Injil, and few deny that the known Italian text contains substantial elements of late fabrication.

* Giovanni Arduino ( author ) ( born 1966 ), Italian writer

What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early fourteenth century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine.

* 1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality

* 1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and writer

* 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and writer ( d. 1755 )

* 1967 – Silvia Ziche, Italian illustrator and writer

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

* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

* 1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist and educator ( d. 1962 )

The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci also made his own bestiary.

* 1984 – Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player

* Leonardo da Vinci ( Italian, 1452 – 1519 ).

Supposedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance man, the wheellock action was an innovation that was not widely adopted due to the high cost of the clockwork mechanism.

It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

The collection began with Francis, who acquired works from Italian masters such as Raphael and Michelangelo, and brought Leonardo da Vinci to his court.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( ) ( April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style ) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli ( sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo ; 1445 – 1517 ) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.

Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

About the same time, he published Pasquale's Angel, set in an alternate Italian Renaissance and featuring Niccolò Machiavegli ( Machiavelli ) and Leonardo da Vinci as major characters.

Ludovico Sforza ( known as Ludovico il Moro, famous for taking Leonardo da Vinci into his service ) was defeated in 1500 by the French army of Louis XII of France-see Italian Wars.

* Leonardo da Vinci, ( 1452 – 1519 ), Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

* Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter

* March 15 – The Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci sinks the Canadian pacific liner RMS Empress of Canada off Sierre Leone.

* July 29 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist ( b. 1875 )

* January 25 – The Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci is righted in Taranto Harbour.

** Leonardo " Leo " Ortolani, Italian comic book author

* August 29 – Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist ( d. 1962 )

** Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary ( d. 1685 )

* October 31 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer ( b. 1694 )

* May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter ( b. 1452 )

* August 5 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer ( d. 1744 )

* Leonardo of Pisa, Italian mathematician