How about Giacomo Puccini??
Nicolo Machiavelli
Bureaucrat and diplomat for the city-state of Florence, Italy for about 14 years. He organized Florence's militia and was sent on diplomatic missions. After he lost his job he wrote letters asking for another with suggestions on how his skills could be put to work. Wrote "The Prince," a book on political science, in hopes that Lorenzo Medici, head of the new family in authority in Florence, would give him a job, but it didn't work. "The Prince" became and underground classic and published. His ideas were about the obtaining, maintaining and expanding of political power.
very good, B. you can go to the head of the class.
there was a guy named marconi who invented the wireless, which gave birth to the entire concept of computer sciences. and al gore had the temerity to claim invention of the internet.
Mario Capecchi. Latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in medicine. He (along with 2 colleagues) produced specific genetic alterations in mice. Creating a potential means of altering the probability of a decease producing or activating in humans.
And let's not forget you favorite Sirbill, Yogi Berra. Noted eloquent orator and philosopher who had lasting effects on the English language as we know it today.
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard.
Michaelangelo. No way can we list all of his innovations from architecture to art to production techniques and weapons of war and defense.
Enrico Fermi for his work with Einstein on the Manhatten Project at Princeton University.
How about Dino Crocetti or Francis Albert Sinatra
A famous Italian of "note" was my favorite singer-Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti.
