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Italian male non-fiction writers

  • Galileo GalileiIn the year 1564, a boy named Galileo was born in Pisa to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammannati. His father worked as a lutenist and music theorist who…
  • Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli entered the world on the 3rd of May 1469 in Florence, Italy. He was the third child and first son of attorney Bernardo di…
  • Pope Pius VIIBarnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti entered the world on the 14th of August 1742 in Cesena. He was the youngest son of Count Scipione Chiaramonti and…
  • Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…
  • Marino Sanuto the YoungerMarino Sanuto the Younger entered the world on the 22nd of May 1466. He was born into a patrician family of Venice with important wealth.