List of Famous people born in Italy
Giovanni Caccia-Piatti
Francesco Conti
Francesco Conti was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Marco Vigerio della Rovere
Marco Vigerio della Rovere was an Italian bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Walter of the Mill
Walter Ophamil or Offamil, italianised as Gualtiero Offamiglio or Offamilio from Latin Ophamilius, was the archdeacon of Cefalù, dean of Agrigento, and archbishop of Palermo (1168–1191), called "il primo ministro", the first minister of the crown. He came to Sicily with Peter of Blois and Stephen du Perche at the direction of Rotrou, Archbishop of Rouen, cousin of Queen Margaret of Navarre, originally as a tutor to the royal children of William I of Sicily and Margaret. His mother was Bona, a patron of the Abbey of Cluny and a devota et fidelis nostra of the king in 1172. His father is unknown. From his name he was long thought to be an Englishman but this interpretation is now rejected in favour of ophamilius referring to Walter as William II's protofamiliaris, the senior confidant of the king in his royal household, the familiaris regis.
Giovanni Migliorati
Giovanni Niccolò delle Caselle Migliorati was an Italian Cardinal. From 12 June 1405; he was Archbishop of Ravenna from 1400 to 1405. From 1405 he was Administrator of the same Archdiocese.
Gaetano Alimonda
Gaetano Alimonda was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was Archbishop of Turin from 1883 until his death. He was previously Bishop of Albenga from 1877 to 1879. He was made a cardinal in 1879.
Ludovico Mazzolino
Ludovico Mazzolino - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna.
Giuseppe Fietta
Giuseppe Fietta was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1924 to 1958, including a stint as Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina from 1936 to 1953. He was made a cardinal in 1958.
Francesco Bonvisi
Bonifazio Veronese
Bonifacio Veronese, birth name: Bonifacio de' Pitati was an Italian Renaissance painter who was active in Venetian Republic. His work had an important influence on the younger generation of painters in Venice, particularly Andrea Schiavone and Jacopo Tintoretto.