Italian Culture 3-5

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Famous Italians

Brunelleschi

Bernini

Cellini

Donatello

Ghiberti

da Vinci

Michelangelo

Palladio

Fra Angelico

Botticelli

Caravaggio

Giotto

da Vinci

Michelangelo

Modigliani

Raphael

Tintoretto

Titian

Dante

The Devine Comedy

Ariosto

Orlando Furioso

Boccaccio

The Decamaron

Eco

In the Name of the Rose

Leopardi

Machiavelli

The Prince

Petrarca

The Petrarchian Sonnet

Pirandello

Caboto

English explorer-born Caboto

Columbus

Genovese explorer-born Colombo

Polo

Venetian Explorer-first to sail to China

Verrazzano

Discovered the Hudson river many years before Hudson

Inventions

AnemometerLeon Battista Alberti1450
BarometerEvangelista Torricelli1643
Carbon PaperPellegrino Turri1806
CologneJohann Maria Farina1709
CondomGabriele Fallopio1564
Double Entry AccountingLuca Pacioli1494
Electric BatteryAlessandro Volta1800
Electromagnetic SeismographLuigi Palmieri1856
ElectroplatingLuigi V. Brugnatelli1805
Espresso MachineAchille Gaggia1946
EyeglassesSalvino Armati1280
HydrofoilEnrico Forlanini1900
Hydrostatic BalanceGalileo Galilei1596?
Ice Cream ConeItalo Marcioni1896
NitroglycerinAscanio Sobrero1846
Nuclear ReactorEnrico Fermi1942
ParachuteLeonardo da Vinci1480
PianoBartolomeo Cristofori1709
TelephoneAntonio Meucci1871
ThermometerGalileo Galilei1593
Three-way Light BulbAlessandro Dandini20th Century
TypewriterPellegrino Turri1808
Universal JointGirolamo Cardano1545
Wheel LockLeonardo da Vinci16th Century
Wireless TelegraphyGuglielmo Marconi1896
ZamboniFrank J. Zamboni1949

Vespucci

Cartographer of the New world

Puccini

(1858-1924); one of the most famous of all opera composers; some of his works fall in the verismo style; among his works are Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Girl of the Golden West, Il Trittico, and Turandot

Leoncavallo

(1858-1919); Italian composer of verismo opera; his most famous work is Pagliacci. The subject is derived from the characters of the commedia dell-arte.

Bellini

(1801-1835); Italian composer of bel canto opera; his most famous works are Norma (1831) and I Puritani (1835).

Vivaldi

Composer of the 4 seasons

Verdi

1813-1901); greatest Italian opera composer of the 19th century; works include La traviata, Rigoletto, Aida, Otello, and many more.

Monteverdi

(1567-1643): composer of the one of the first complete operas to survive L'Orfeo (1607). Also wrote The Coronation of Poppea and The Return of Ulysses.

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