Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci
Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature
Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat
Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist
Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.
Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.Castiglione wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier
Italian writer and publisher
