List of Famous people born in Italy

Pope Sir Anastasius III was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from April 911 to his death.

Count Carlo Ceppi was an Italian architect, active mainly in Piedmont.

Enrico Sibilia was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Nuncio to Austria.

Ulderico Carpegna was an Italian jurist and Cardinal.

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter active mainly in Bologna during the late Baroque period.

Ferdinando Fontana was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi and Edgar.

Pope Julius III, born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 February 1550 to his death in 1555.

Pope Boniface V was the bishop of Rome from 23 December 619 to his death. He did much for the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, and enacted the decree by which churches became places of sanctuary.

Gino Severini was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.