List of Famous people born in Italy

Nicolò Barattieri was a Lombard engineer active in Venice of the 12th century. In 1180 he raised the Campanile of Venice to 200 feet. In about 1181 he built the first bridge across the Grand Canal a pontoon bridge that was the first version of the Rialto Bridge. Barattieri also erected the two columns in the Piazzetta di San Marco.

Nicolò Politi was an Italian Roman Catholic monk and hermit who joined the Basilians. Politi was born to nobles but fled to become a monk after his parents arranged his marriage when he was seventeen. He spent the next several decades in a mountain cave and would return to the Basilian convent each weekend for the sacraments before he returned to his cave. He was known for his miracles since his childhood and was venerated as a saint after his death despite his reclusive hermitage.

Michelangelo Celesia, O.S.B. Cas. was an Italian Benedictine monk who served as the Archbishop of Palermo from 1871 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1884.

Antonio Rocco was an Italian priest and philosophy teacher, and a writer. Ever since 1888 when he was identified as its anonymous author, he is best known for his satirical homosexual text, L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola, written in 1630 and published in 1652.

Novello da San Lucano was an Italian architect and designer, mainly active in Naples.

Lorenzo Mascheroni was an Italian mathematician.