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Photo by Allan Langdale- Palermo Cathedral

Trulli houses are typical of the village of Alberobello, in Puglia Italy. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

By Dennis Jarvis from Halifax Canada - courtesy of Wikimedia commons

St. Peter's square: Aerial view of St. Peter's Square, Rome

Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

Giotto di Bondone, "Kiss of Judas." Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, south wall (1303-1306)

Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), "New York 1930."

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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1652), Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting.

Composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924).

Writer Igiaba Scego (b. 1974). Image source: Wikipedia. Photograph by Giuseppe Ungaro.

Novelist and poet Elsa Morante (1912-1985).

Portrait of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) by Sandro Botticelli (1495). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Physician and pedagogical theorist Maria Montessori (1870-1952), founder of the Montessori educational method. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Posthumous portrait by Santi di Tito (1536-1603).

Political theorist Antonio Gramsci (1831-1937). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Actor and writer Roberto Benigni in TuttoDante a Padova" by Silviapitt - Own work. via Wikimedia Commons -

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