Italian Culture and History

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Culture and History of Italy

Museums

Museums of Rome
Museums of Florence
Museums and Monuments of Venice

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.

Italian Explorers

Italian Mathematicians and Scientists

Famous Italian Luthiers

History of Italy

Introduction to the history of Italy

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

Guglielmo Marconi
inventor of wireless telegraphy

Centaur
in the Great Hall of the
Capitoline Museums

Garibaldi

Culture and Craftsmanship

see separate page: Art and Culture of Italy

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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Sports

Italian soccer
Founded in 1898, the Italian Football League, also known as Italy soccer, is the highest football league in the country. Read more >>