List of Famous people born in Italy

Durante Duranti was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Bartolomeo Cesi (1566–1621) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Baldassare Cenci, seniore (1648–1709) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Bernardino da Asola (c.1490–1540) was a 16th-century Italian painter.

Francesco del Cossa was an Italian Renaissance painter of the School of Ferrara.

Pietro Linari was an Italian cyclist. He finished in fourth place in the 1925 Paris–Roubaix.

Spinello Aretino was an Italian painter from Arezzo, who was active in Tuscany at the end of the 14th and the first decennium of the 15th century. His style influenced the development of late 14th- and early 15th-century painting in Tuscany.

Angelo Mai was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first time a series of previously unknown ancient texts. These he was able to discover and publish, first while in charge of the Ambrosian Library in Milan and then in the same role at the Vatican Library. The texts were often in parchment manuscripts that had been washed off and reused; he was able to read the lower text using chemicals. In particular he was able to locate a substantial portion of the much sought-after De republica of Cicero and the complete works of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus.