THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN PERSONALITIES IN HISTORY EUROPEAN

THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN PERSONALITIES IN HISTORY “EUROPEAN SCHOOLS WITHOUT STEREOTYPES PROMOTING EUROPEAN INTERCULTURALITY”

PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION „European schools without stereotypes promoting the European inter culturality“ № 2016 -1 -RO 01 -KA 219 -024675

Technological High School Costești, ROMANIA I. I. S. S. Carlo Maria Carafa Mazzarino, ITALIA Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Manavgat, TURCIA Vocational School of Tourism “Mihalaki Georgiev” Vidin, BULGARIA Coordinator project-Mrs. Drăguț Violeta Technological High School Costești, Romania Coordinators-Mrs. Mandzhukova Evlogiya, Vocational School of Tourism “Mihalaki Georgiev”Vidin, Bulgaria Mrs. Anna Maria Lo Bue, I. I. S. S. "Carlo Maria Carafa" Mazzarino, Italy Mr. Onur Arslan, Sule Muzaffer Buyuk Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, Manavgat, Turkey

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Dante Alighieri Was the major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. He wrote Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa which is considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

Christopher Columbus Was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World. In fact he had an important role during the discovery of America

Leonardo Da Vinci Was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, . He is considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter.

Galileo Galilei Was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution. He introduced the scientific metod and studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativily, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology.

Rita Levi Montalcini Was an Italian Nobel laureate, honored for her work in neurobiology. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Luigi Pirandello Was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian.

Giuseppe Garibaldi Was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. He is considered "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in Brazil, Uruguay and Europe.

Giotto di Bondone Was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. Giotto's contemporary wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature”

Maria Montessori Was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. She was a single mother. Her educational method is in use today in many public and private schools throughout the world.

Sophia Loren Is an Italian film actress and singer. Encouraged in acting lessons after , Loren began her film career in 1950 at age of 15. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples.

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