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Born in Florence on 25 March 1541, the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francesco I, left behind a legacy of art, alchemy, political ambiguity, and a death that has puzzled historians for more than four centuries.
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On 24 March 1926, one of the most provocative and prolific figures in twentieth-century theatre was born in the small Lombardy town of Leggiuno Sangiano, in the Province of Varese. Dario Fo would go on to write more than 80 plays, win the Nobel Prize in Literature, be banned from Italian television, and spend a […]
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On 23 March 1514, Lorenzino de’ Medici, the man who assassinated his cousin and ruler of Florence, was born in Florence.
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On 22 March 1986, disgraced banker Michele Sindona died in hospital after being poisoned with cyanide. Just four days earlier, he received a life sentence for ordering the murder of a lawyer investigating his financial empire.
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On 21 March 1474, Angela Merici was born in Desenzano del Garda, then part of the Republic of Venice. She would go on to found the Ursuline Order, the first community of women in the Catholic Church dedicated specifically to the education of girls.
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On 20th March 1597, Venetian architect Antonio da Ponte died in Venice, leaving behind one of the most recognisable landmarks in the world: the Rialto Bridge.
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The revolutionary thinker Giuseppe Mazzini, one of the key figures behind the movement for Italian unification, died on 10th March 1872 in Pisa.
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On 7th March 1785, Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni was born in Milan. He would go on to shape the modern Italian language and produce what is widely regarded as the most important novel in Italian literature.
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Pietro Novelli, widely regarded as the most important Sicilian artist of the 17th century, was born on 2nd March 1603 in Monreale, just outside Palermo.
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Luisa Sanfelice, the aristocrat executed after the fall of the Parthenopean Republic, was born on 28th February 1764 in Naples.
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