Italy

🇮🇹Dante Alighieri

Literature

1265–1321

"Ella è quanto de ben pò far natura;per essemplo di lei bieltà si prova."

🇮🇹Galileo Galilei

Science

1564–1642

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

🇮🇹Thomas Aquinas

Religion

scholasticism

1225–1274

"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

🇮🇹Umberto Eco

Literature

1932–2016

"Signs are not empirical objects. Empirical objects become signs only from the point of view of a philosophical decision."

🇮🇹Pope Benedict XVI

Religion

1927–2022

"Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church."

🇮🇹Frank Sinatra

Entertainment

1915–1998

"Last Will and Testament of Frank Sinatra"

🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate."

🇮🇹Roberto Baggio

Politics

b. 1967

"There's not a team in the world that wouldn't like to have him in their line-up."

🇮🇹Asia Argento

Entertainment

b. 1975

"I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein."

"Hell is a fallacy, and heaven is a fantasy created by man."

🇮🇹Raf

Music

b. 1959

"Oh the night is my world, city life painted girls, in a day nothing matters"

"The mid-life crisis is when we think that work is what gives meaning to our lives."

🇮🇹Federico Fellini

Entertainment

1920–1993

"A different language is a different vision of life."

🇮🇹Gianfranco Fini

Politics

b. 1952

"I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to communism is currently still very relevant."

🇮🇹Horace

Literature

"Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end."

🇮🇹Gianni Vattimo

Philosophy

1936–2023

"I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States."

🇮🇹Chiara Civello

music composing

b. 1975

"Don't ask me why, oh why, you're still the one that makes my teardrops dry."

🇮🇹Carlo Rovelli

Philosophy

b. 1956

"The World is Made of Events, not Things."

🇮🇹Oriana Fallaci

Journalism

1929–2006

"Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense."

"Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion"

🇮🇹Roberto Saviano

Economics

b. 1979

"Il Sistema Camorra, Interviewed by Arcoiris TV"

🇮🇹Rodolfo Graziani

Military

1882–1955

"An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes."

🇮🇹Gianni A. Sarcone

Mathematics

b. 1962

"Colors are ghosts, they only start to exist when light is perceived on the retina as a stimulus and is processed into color perception in our brain."

🇮🇹Roger Joseph Boscovich

Science

1711–1787

"Roger Joseph Boscovich, edited by Lancelot Law Whyte"

🇮🇹Alberto Moravia

Journalism

Existentialism

1907–1990

"And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating."

🇮🇹Giorgio de Chirico

painting

metaphysical painting

1888–1978

"links to a selection of essay-texts, written by de Chirico"

🇮🇹Riccardo Niseem Onorato

Entertainment

b. 1966

"Laws of Attraction - Matrimonio in appello"

🇮🇹Lucio Russo

Mathematics

1944–2025

"The oft-heard comment that Leonardo 's genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past."

🇮🇹Luciano Pavarotti

Music

1935–2007

"Anthony Tommasini, "An Appraisal: A Master of Italian Operatic Artistry", The New York Times, 6 September 2007"