OVERVIEW

History of The Italian Language (Latin)



1. A. Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo)(explorer)
   B. CLICK HERE for his crew - maybe one of your relatives?
   C. Columbus Everything Click Here
   D. What Columbus Started?
   E. More on Cloumbus
   

2. Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) (explorer)
    

3. a. Joe Dimaggio (sports-baseball)
   b. Joe Dimaggio
   
   

4. Joe Torre (sports - baseball)
   info to come soon
   

5. Vince Lombardi - Football hall of famer in 1971 Sports-Football
   
   

6. Rocky Marciano (sports-boxing)
   More on Rocky
   
   

7. a. Nicolo Machiavelli (Politics-Government 1500's)
   
   b. Nicolo Machiavelli - a point of view
   
   c. "The Prince" by Nicolo Machiavelli
   
   

8. Rudolph W. Giuliani (Politics-NYC Mayor)
   
   

9. Geraldine Ferraro (Politics-ran for VP of U.S.A.)
   
   

10. a. Mario Cuomo (Politics-Governor of NY)
    
    

11. William Paca (Politics-Governor of Maryland)
    (Two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were of Italian descend: Maryland's William Paca and Delaware's Caesar Rodney).
    
    

12. Giuseppe Garibaldi (Politics-Revolutionary)
    
    

13. Filippo Mazzei (Politics-Declaration of Independence)
    
    

14. Francis Ford Coppola (film)

15. Joseph Barbera (film) - The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and dozens of other characters created by the imaginative minds of cartoonists Joseph Barbera (an Italian-American) and William Hanna (Scottish-American) have entertained people around the world for generations. Barbera had been working as an accountant for a New York bank when Collier's magazine bought a cartoon he had created. Inspired by that small success, he gave up accounting and embarked on a career as a cartoonist. After joining MGM, he met Hanna and the two collaborated on dozens of animated shorts and even a number of full-length films. Together Hanna and Barbera received seven Oscars in the 10-year period that ended in 1953. The names Hanna and Barbera were joined for good when the pair formed Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1957. In the ensuing years, they continued to produce volumes of work still seen on Saturday mornings everywhere. 
    More about Joseph Barbera: coming soon
    

16. Martin Scorsese (film)
    The Untouchable Hollywood Italian
    

17. Leonardo DaVinci (Art)
    
    

18. Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (science-mathematics)
    
    

19. a. Galileo Galilei (Science-mathematics, physics and astronomy)
    b. Galileo Galilei
    c. Galileo Galilei - A list of personalities in some way connected to Galileo - A unique site
    
    

20. Alessandra Giuseppi Antonio Anastasio Volta (science-Electrochemistry)
    
    

21. Umberto Nobile (Science-Aeronautical engineer and pioneer)
     

22. Enrici Fermi (Science - He won the 1938 Nobel Prize for physics for his work on nuclear processes)
    
    

23. Olinto DePretto (Science - E=mc² )
    

24. Guglielmo Marconi
    (Science-Inventor/pioneer-electromagnetic waves)
    Listen to Marconi describing his result! (369K .wav file)
    
    

25. Antonio Meucci Museum SI, NY (Family Link) Science-Invented the Telephone
    
    Historical Museum of the Italian Post and Telecommunications - begun in 1878 by Ernesto D'Amico, General Master of the Italian Telegraphs. Read about Meucci, Marconi, etc.
    
    

26. Fiorello La Guardia (Henry) Politics - Mayor of NYC
    
    

27. Frankie Lane  [Frank Paul LoVecchio] (Music)
    

28. Biographies of great Italians of the past (around  Galileo's time)
    
    

29. More Italian Explorers (Vespucci, Verraz(z)ano, Marco Polo, ... )
    
    

30. Chronology of events - 500 years
    
    

31. More famous Italians
    

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