| Hint | Name | Years Alive |
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| Actual inventor of the telephone - not Alexander Graham Bell. | |
| WWII Fascist dictator who made the trains run on time. | |
| Inventor of the radio, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics, and later in life, a staunch Fascist. | |
| Three-time, center-right, gaffe-prone, scandal-ridden billionaire media mogul Prime Minister. | |
| Model turned singer turned first lady of France. | |
| The Roman Inquisition said he was vehemently suspect of heresy. Stephen Hawking said he was responsible for the birth of modern science. | |
| Accidentally discovered the Bahamas on his way to the East Indies and referred to the islands' natives as Indios. | |
| Venetian navigator who carried out the first voyage to North America since Leif Ericson's 1003 landing in Newfoundland. | |
| Explorer who voyaged through Asia. He has an airport, a species of sheep, and a pool game named after him. | |
| Explored the Atlantic coast of North America from South Carolina to Newfoundland. | |
| He was the first to realize that the New World was not Asia. Thus, the continents derive their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name. | |
| WWI Prime Minister who went to Versailles with one territorial demand for Italy: the town of Fiume. He didn't get it. | |
| Socialist Prime Minister called Europe's strong man by The Economist. He also became a symbol of political corruption. | |
| Prime Minister who was kidnapped and executed by Marxist terrorists during the Years of Lead. | |
| Revolutionary and Italian national hero who also fought in the Uruguayan Civil War. | |
| International sex symbol who became the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. | |
| One of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century; known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images. | |
| Model and actress who has performed film roles in Italian, French, English, Spanish, and Aramaic. | |
| Archetypal Renaissance Man who conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and the double hull. | |
| First of ruler of the political dynasty that ruled Florence for centuries. | |
| Former Democratic Party opposition leader billed as Italy's Obama in the 2008 general elections; he lost to Berlusconi's People of Freedom. | |
| Shrewd politician who was the de facto ruler of France under her three weak sons: Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. | |
| Rival of Leonardo Da Vinci known for such works as La Pieta, David, The Last Judgement, and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. | |
| Painter of the Florentine school in the early Renaissance who created The Birth of Venus. | |
| Scholar and poet known as the Father of Humanism. | |
| | Hint | Name | Years Alive |
|---|
| Businessman who is the current CEO of Fiat S.p.A and Chrysler Group LLC. | |
| One of the earliest Renaissance painters; credited with breaking away from medieval Byzantine and Gothic styles. | |
| Artist of the High Renaissance known most for his painting The School of Athens. | |
| Florentine homosexual and artist known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture. | |
| Nobel laureate in physics who worked on the Manhattan Project and has a synthetic element named after him. | |
| World famous fashion model who appeared on the covers of hundreds of romance novels in the 1980s and 1990s. | |
| Writer of the Divine Comedy who is known as the Father of the Italian language. | |
| Famous fashion designer particularly known for his menswear. | |
| Friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, and writer of the Decameron. | |
| Formerly a prominent member of the Communist Party, he is the current president of Italy under the Democratic Party. | |
| Composer, violinist, and priest who created the popular baroque piece The Four Seasons. | |
| Billionaire confectioner whose chocolate company was named most reputable company in the world by Forbes. | |
| Florentine despot whose death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. | |
| Film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the Spaghetti Western genre. | |
| Author of The Prince who opined that it was more effective for a ruler to be feared than loved. | |
| Author of The Book of the Courtier which adressed what constituted a perfect courtier and a perfect lady. | |
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| Actor, comedian, writer, and director who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1998. | |
| Spanish-Italian general, statesman, lord and cardinal who was the son of Pope Alexander VI. | |
| Fashion designer; a feature-length documentary on him premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. | |
| Physicist who developed the first electric cell in 1800; the unit of electrical potential is named after him. | |
| Linguist, mathematician, and philosopher once called the first important woman mathematician since Hypatia. | |
| Prime Minister installed by the king after the ousting of Mussolini; he signed an armistice with the Allies and declared war on Germany. | |
| Prime Minister with Mafia ties who was the inspiration for the main antagonist in The Godfather Part III. | |
| Renaissance architect who built 'Il Duomo', the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. | |
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