ITALIAN GENIUSES AND VIRTUOSI

 

Italy has produced more geniuses than any other country in History in almost any field.

 

We define "genius" "a person with extraordinary intellectual power specially manifested in creative activity which strongly influences human culture, art, music, religion, technology, science and other trascendent disciplines". We define "virtuoso" "a person with extraordinary skills in a specific art, profession or discipline":

 

 

Michelangelo Da Vinci Raffaello Bruneleschi  Donatello
             
               
Tintoretto Caravaggio Botticelli Giotto   Modigliani
               
Tiziano Bernini Giambologna Giorgione Masaccio
               
Dante Petrarca Bocaccio Pirandello Calvino
               
Virgil   Cicero Ovidius   Titus Livius   Tacitus
Machiavelli   St Thomas Cesare Beccaria   Mirandola   Vincenzo Gioberti
       
Giuseppe Verdi   Rossini Puccini   Donizetti   Jacopo Peri

Enrico Caruso
 
Luciano Pavarotti

Arturo Toscanini
 
Paganini
 
Stradivari
               
Vivaldi   Antonio Salieri Padre Martini   Guido d'Arezzo   Ennio Morricone
Cristofori   Federico Fellini Galileo Galilei   More Italian geniuses and virtuosi...