List of Famous people born in Italy

Jacopo Corsi was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicis. His best-known work is Dafne (1597/98), whose score he wrote in collaboration with Jacopo Peri. Six fragments of the score have survived, two by Corsi and four by Peri. The libretto, by Ottavio Rinuccini, has survived intact. Despite priority quibbles at the time, Dafne is generally accepted as the first opera.

Francesco Panigarola was an Italian Franciscan preacher and controversialist, and Bishop of Asti.

Camillo Mariani was a major Italian sculptor whose work bridged the artistic worlds of Venice and Rome, forming a base for the Baroque style of the seventeenth century.

Simone del Pollaiolo (1457–1508) was a Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca.

Andrea Gioannetti (1722–1800) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Vincenzo Maria Altieri (1724–1800) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal from 1777 to 1800. He belonged to the Altieri family, one of the noble families of Rome.

Giuseppe Olivieri was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 1 of the 1920 Giro d'Italia.