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Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Italian painter and biographer (1613-1696)
Giovanni Baglione
painter and biographer of artists (c. 1566–1643)

Bartolomeo Platina
Italian humanist writer and gastronomist (1421–1481)
Filippo Baldinucci
Italian art historian (1625-1697)
Ascanio Condivi
Italian painter (1525-1574)

Antonio Bonfini
Italian writer and historian
Vespasiano da Bisticci
Italian humanist
Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli
Byron's mistress (1800–1873)

Carlo Cesare Malvasia
Italian art historian
Laura Fermi
Italian-born writer and political activist
Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna
Italian historian (1789-1868)

Angelo Fabroni
Italian biographer
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Italian writer and art critic (1820-1897)
Paolo Costa
Italian poet and philosopher (1771-1836)
Giuseppe Carpani
Italian writer (1752-1825)
Domenico Bernini
Italian 17th-century historian

Armando Gallo
Italian photographer and writer
Giammaria Mazzucchelli
Italian literate, bibliographer and literary historian (1707–1765)
Fulgenzio Micanzio
Italian biographer (1570-1654)
Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli
writer from Italy

Scipione Barbò Soncino
Italian jurist
Marco Lastri
Italian agronomist and writer (1731-1811)
Anonimo Magliabechiano
anonymous author of the Codice Magliabechiano or Magliabechiano, a manuscript with 128 pages of text, probably from the 1530s and 1540s
Filippo Mordani
Italian writer