Category
page 1Writers from Rome
Leo XIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
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Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)

Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet and librettist (1698–1782)
Lorenzo Valla
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)
Aulus Gellius
2nd century Roman author and grammarian
Elsa Morante
Italian novelist (1912–1985)
Giorgio Agamben
Italian philosopher (b. 1942)

Mario Monicelli
Italian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010)
Altiero Spinelli
Italian politician (1907-1986)
Lucio Fulci
Italian filmmaker (1927–1996)

Niccolò Ammaniti
Italian writer (1966)

Catherine of Genoa
Italian author and nurse

Carlo Lizzani
Italian film director, screenwriter and critic (1922-2013)
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
Italian poet
Giovanni Pietro Bellori
Italian painter and biographer (1613-1696)
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Italian screenwriter (1914–2010)
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
writer from Spain (1927-2019)
Cristina Comencini
Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist
Vincenzo Cerami
Italian screenwriter (1940-2013)
Steno
Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (1917–1988)
Andrea Riccardi
Italian historian, professor, politician, and activist
Tullia d'Aragona
Italian courtesan, author
Francesca Archibugi
film director (born 1960)
Alba de Céspedes
Cuban-Italian writer and poet
Dario Franceschini
Minister of Culture, Italian lawyer, writer, and politician (born 1958)
Anna Maria Ortese
Italian writer and journalist (1914–1998)
Camillo Boito
Italian architect (1836–1914)
Carlo Vanzina
Italian film director, producer and screenwriter (1951–2018)
Francesco Maselli
Italian film director and screenwriter (1930–2023)
Francesca Comencini
Italian film director and screenwriter
Daniele Archibugi
Italian economic and political theorist
Carlo Cassola
Italian novelist (1917-1987)
Maurizio Costanzo
Italian television presenter (1938–2023)
Giuseppe Bottai
Italian journalist, university professor and politician (1895–1959)
Emanuele Crialese
Italian film director (born 1965)
Nicola Francesco Haym
Italian composer and musician (1678-1729)
Cesare Sterbini
Italian writer and librettist
Bruno Corbucci
Italian screenwriter and film director (1931–1996)
Enrico Guazzoni
Italian film director (1876–1949)
Antonio Margheriti
Italian film director (1930–2002)
Massimo Pigliucci
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College

Camillo Mastrocinque
Italian film director (1901-1969)
Lorenzo Magalotti
Italian philosopher, poet and diplomat (1637-1712)
Luigi Chiarini
Italian screenwriter and film director (1900-1975)
Enzo Barboni
Italian film director (1922–2002)
Immanuel the Roman
Jewish scholar and poet
Pasquale Panella
Italian poet, actor and writer
Uberto Pasolini
Italian film producer and director
Bernardino Zapponi
novelist, screenwriter (1927-2000)
Baldassarre Boncompagni
Italian mathematician (1821-1894)
Fulvio Orsini
Italian humanist, historian, and archaeologist
Giulio Petroni
Italian director and screenwriter (1917-2010)
Pompeo Colonna
Catholic cardinal
Giorgio Amendola
Italian writer and politician (1907–1980)
Licia Troisi
Italian writer
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
Italian poet, editor (1752-1799)
Franco Venturi
Italian historian, essayist, journalist (1914-1994)