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Famous Italians

Italian Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, Medecine, Physics, Peace, Mathematics and Economics

Italian Inventors : many great inventions were produced by Italians: Marconi and the telegraph, Meucci and the telephone, Torricelli and the baromater and many more.

Guglielmo Marconi
inventor of wireless telegraphy

History of Italy

Introduction to the history of Italy

Italian Culture in the 1800's

Giuseppe Garibaldi: biography of one of the most famous heroes of Italy's popular history, who has been credited for being the man behind the unification of Italy in the late 1800s.

Hannibal and the Punic Wars

Magna Graecia (Greek Italy)

Origins of Rome

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Italian Violins:
Introduction of the Cremona school of violin making and history of three of the most famous Italian luthiers: Amati, Stradivari, Bergonzi

Leonardo da Vinci

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